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A whole lot of 1000’s of consumers of well-liked electronics retailer The Good Guys have been warned of a possible knowledge breach.
The obvious knowledge theft associated to clients who had signed up for the corporate’s rewards program.
The Good Guys stated it had contacted 325,000 members of the rewards program who had arrange a My Rewards account.
One other 1.5 million clients may additionally have had their private particulars impacted and have additionally been made conscious.
The corporate stated the breach associated to folks’s names, addresses and telephone numbers.
The knowledge could have been accessed when the IT techniques of a former third-party supplier — My Rewards Pty Ltd — had been accessed by an “unauthorized person”.
The Good Guys stated its personal techniques had not been hacked and it now not used that supplier.
The seashore follows high-profile hacks at Optus and Medibank that impacted millions of Australians last year.
In a press release on Thursday, the Good Guys stated the breach occurred in 2021 however it had solely now been made conscious.
“The Good Guys is immediately contacting Concierge members who could have been impacted by the My Rewards knowledge breach,” the assertion stated.
“The character of the particular info concerned for every affected particular person is ready out within the communication that the person receives from The Good Guys.
“The Good Guys is extraordinarily upset that My Rewards, a former providers supplier, has skilled this breach and we apologize for any concern that this may occasionally trigger.”
