Adidas Reports Data Breach--Update
June 28 2018 - 2:13PM
Dow Jones News
By Sara Germano
Adidas AG said Thursday that a "few million" customers shopping
on its U.S. website may have had their data exposed to an
unauthorized party.
Neither the specific number of users affected nor the time frame
of the potential breach were immediately disclosed, but the German
sportswear maker said it became aware of the issue on Tuesday and
has begun a forensic review.
Adidas said they are alerting "certain customers who purchased
on adidas.com/US" and that, according to the company's preliminary
examination, data affected include contact information, usernames
and encrypted passwords.
"Adidas has no reason to believe that any credit card or fitness
information of those consumers was impacted," the company said.
The sportswear maker is the latest in a string of consumer and
financial firms to report data breaches in recent years, including
rival Under Armour Inc., which in March disclosed that some 150
million users of its fitness-tracking apps had their personal
information exposed.
Also this spring, department stores Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord
& Taylor said hackers had breached their payment systems and
stole credit card information for millions of shoppers, according
to the chains' corporate parent Hudson's Bay Co.
Write to Sara Germano at sara.germano@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
June 28, 2018 13:58 ET (17:58 GMT)
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