Personal information of 820,000 members of Hong Kong’s largest department store chain, Sogo, may have been exposed in a data breach, the city’s privacy watchdog has revealed. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data disclosed the figures on Thursday, hours after Sogo announced it had alerted authorities a week earlier to abnormal data access within its membership system. Preliminary findings indicate that compromised records may include members’ names, email addresses, phone...
Hong Kong Sogo data breach puts personal information of 820,000 members at risk
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SCMP - China Feed 2By Danny Mok
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Personal information of 820,000 members of Hong Kong’s largest department store chain, Sogo, may have been exposed in a data breach, the city’s privacy watchdog has revealed. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data disclosed the figures on Thursday, hours after Sogo announced it had alerted authorities a week earlier to abnormal data access within its membership system. Preliminary findings indicate that compromised records may include members’ names, email addresses, phone...
Key Takeaways
- Hong Kong Sogo data breach puts personal information of 820,000 members at risk.
- Personal information of 820,000 members of Hong Kong’s largest department store chain, Sogo, may have been exposed in a data breach, the city’s privacy watchdog has revealed.
- Preliminary findings indicate that compromised records may include members’ names, email addresses, phone...
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