The North Face and Cartier: New goals of cyber attacks

The outdoor brand The North Face and the Luxury Schmucklabel Cartier are among the latest fashion companies that were targeted by cyber attacks. As the BBC reports, the North Face informed that affected people: inside that an attack “small scope” had occurred in April.

The incident was so -called credential stuffing – a method in which attackers try to reuse stolen registration data from previous data leaks in various services. They hope that users: inside use the same combination of email address and password.

According to the company, the attackers could have a potentially access to delivery addresses as well as shopping history of individual customers: inside. The users concerned: Inside, called to change their passwords immediately.

Cartier also confirmed a security incident. In an email that the BBC is present, it says that an “non-authorized party” has temporarily gained access to the company’s system. “Limited customers: interior data” were compromised – however, financial information remained unaffected. The company reported the incident to the responsible authorities and emphasized that the security measures had now been further reinforced.

With the current incidents, The North Face and Cartier line up in a growing list of affected fashion retailers: inside. In the past two months, Adidas, Harrods, Dior, Victoria’s Secret and Marks & Spencer have reported similar data breakdowns.

It apparently started a suspected ransomware attack on Marks & Spencer. Since then, the British department store company has lost over £ 1.2 billion. In the course of the incident, CEO Stuart Machin is said to have been confronted with a reduction in salary of £ 1.1 million.

Fashionunited asked the parent company of The North Face, VF Corp, and Cartier for an opinion.