Hackers have stolen the private details of potentially millions of customers of the Gucci, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen brands in an attack on the French matrix company of the labels, Kering, the BBC reported Monday.
Keing confirmed the gap in a statement without appointing the affected brands, saying that he identified in June that “an unauthorized third part obtained temporary access to our systems and agreed to limited data from customers of some of our houses.”
The attack seems to be part of a broader phenomenon that affects luxury brands and retailers this year.
There have also been gaps in Cartier by Richemont and some of the LVMH labels. In July, the privacy agency of Hong Kong said he was investigating a data filtration that affected some 419,000 Louis Vuitton clients of LVMH.
Stolen client data includes names, email addresses, telephone numbers, addresses and total amounts spent in brands, according to the BBC report.
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Kering said no financial data were stolen, such as credit card numbers or bank accounts.
The hackers, who identified themselves as “Shiny Hunters” to the BBC, claim to have data linked to 7.4 million unique email addresses.
Kering said his brands immediately disseminated the gap to the relevant authorities and notified customers according to local regulations. He did not comment when Reuters asked him which countries were affected by the attack.
With Reuters information.
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