North Face And Cartier Hit By Cyber Attacks

Fashion marque The North Face and luxury jeweller Cartier person go nan latest retailers to study having customer information stolen successful cyber attacks.

North Face has emailed immoderate customers saying it discovered a "small-scale" onslaught successful April this year.

Cartier said "an unauthorized statement gained impermanent entree to our system".

Both brands opportunity information specified arsenic customers names and email addresses were taken, but financial accusation was not.

There has been a activity of cyber attacks connected high-profile retailers successful caller weeks, including Adidas, Victoria's Secret and Harrods.

Marks and Spencer (M&S) and nan Co-op had their operations severely disrupted erstwhile they were targeted successful April.

North Face told customers nan hackers it was targeted by utilized a method called "credential stuffing", wherever attackers effort usernames and passwords stolen from different information breach, successful nan dream customers person reused nan aforesaid passwords crossed aggregate accounts.

They opportunity nan attackers whitethorn person been capable to summation entree to immoderate users' shipping addresses and acquisition histories.

Affected customers will request to alteration their passwords.

North Face's owner, VF Outdoors, was deed by a abstracted cyber onslaught successful December 2023.

That affected different of its brands, Vans, pinch its customers being warned their accusation whitethorn beryllium astatine risk.

Cartier's information breach, meanwhile, was a hack of its strategy wherever attackers "obtained constricted customer information," according to an email to its customers seen by BBC News.

Passwords and paper specifications were not accessed, it said.

The patient added: "We contained nan rumor and person further enhanced nan protection of our systems and data."

It besides said it had reported nan incident to nan applicable authorities.

BBC News has contacted North Face and Cartier for comment.

Retailers are often targets of cyber attacks, and location person been a drawstring of high-profile companies publically reporting being hacked recently.

In May, Adidas said nan specifications of group who had contacted its thief table were stolen.

Victoria's Secret besides had to take down its US website successful May aft a "security incident".

The onslaught connected Co-op near it pinch quiet shelves, while M&S says its online services will beryllium disrupted until July.

M&S estimates it will trim profits for nan existent twelvemonth by astir £300m.

On Monday, it revealed its main executive's full salary package had grown to £7m.