Office, a UK based shoe retailer is the latest victim in the series of high-profile security breaches that has led to compromise of customers’ personal details including their name, address, email address, phone numbers and account password.
High street retailer has sent out emails to customers apologising for the break-in as well as assuring that the company has taken all the necessary measure to secure customer information.
It’s not clear on how many customers have been affected and the company has also not detailed whether the information was encrypted or how the breach occurred, except that the information was stolen after an attack against one of its servers.
“I can confirm that the Office website has been the subject of a security breach. We take such a threat very seriously and have been in communication with our customers to advise them of the matter,” said chief executive Brian McCluskey in a statement.
“We can confirm that no credit card, debit card, Paypal or bank details were compromised in any way. In addition we have reported the matter to the relevant authorities.”
The breach news comes just weeks after eBay revealed that it has suffered a serious break-in, while the perils still seem to continue with multiple vulnerabilities being discovered.
Office confirmed the security breach on May 26 after an extensive investigation for four days starting May 22. The accounts created before August 2013 have been impacted and the retailer has reset the passwords of all the affected customers, who will have to create a new password the next time they log-in.
Office, founded in the year 1981, has around 153 retailer showrooms around the world. The company confirmed that it has reported the breach to the “relevant authorities,” and that it is “treating this extremely seriously.”
McCluskey said “Our customers remain our number one priority and we are taking all necessary measures to ensure that our website remains secure.”
