Oooooh! Fashion! Yes, 1m-plus accounts on clothes, trinket websites exposed by lax security

Naff computer security at an e-commerce provider potentially exposed the details of more than a million unique accounts on British clothing and accessory shopping websites, infosec experts have confirmed. Sub-optimal security at Fashion Nexus meant a white-hat hacker, Taylor Ralston, was able to access databases containing …

[Anonymous Coward]

A new way to damage a company...

Breach and report. Maybe the Ministry of Fun could try this as a money spinner.

[Doctor Syntax]

Yet again...

... PR-speak is allowed to get away with the "we take it seriously" line without being challenged.

Come on, el Reg, you can do better than this: either they get challenged to prove it and the reply also gets published or that bit of the statement doesn't get published at all.

[israel_hands]

Re: Yet again...

If you read Cluely's blog their original response when he asked if they were going to notify anyone was "no". Just that in an e-mail reply to him.

Proof enough that they don't give a shit and the PR bollocks is just that.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Yet again...

Any chance of seeing the risk analysis / assessment?

[adam payne]

Fashion Nexus take our clients and their customer's data security extremely seriously and we apologise that we have come up short in this instance.

Is there a free template online somewhere for breach announcements?

[Doctor Syntax]

"Is there a free template online somewhere for breach announcements?"

I think it's a standard question in PR job interview scripts. They're not required to know what it means.

[DJV]

I think...

...I may be safe in this instance as I neither understand nor "do" fashion.

[VinceH]

Re: I think...

Ditto - which is why I'm baffled as to why a bunch of online clothes shops have people's dates of birth on file. Do they apply some kind of rule when browsing their websites to ensure people over a certain age don't try wearing fashionable things and thus make them uncool, or something?

[AMBxx]

Re: I think...

It's to send you a voucher on your birthday. As far as Google and any other nosy site is concerned, I was born in 1899.

I get some very odd emails.

Need a grumpy old man icon...

[Doctor Syntax]

Re: I think...

"It's to send you a voucher on your birthday."

In which case, provided you're actually interested in the product, the more birthdays you have registered the better.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: I think...

Fashion is what happens when everyone else is wearing what I do every day. Phfffpppt!

[Prst. V.Jeltz]

20% test accounts?