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Fashion mart Miinto unzips breach details, warns shoppers to watch for phisherfolk
Copenhagen company ‘sorry’ after 'perpetrator' pops order management system
Danish ecommerce company Miinto admitted an intruder has been looking at its order data, according to emails it sent to customers this week.The emails, seen by The Register, do not comment on the scale of the data accessed by the perp or how exactly the breach occurred, although UK-based customers of the Copenhagen-HQ'd biz have received them.“We are writing to let you know about a security incident that may have affected some of the personal data associated with a purchase you made on Miinto,” the email states.
“We have reported this to the police and to the relevant data protection authority, and we are contacting you directly so that you know exactly what happened and what to watch out for. We know a notice like this can be unsettling, and we want to be as clear and transparent with you as we can.”
