Eau no! Dior tells customers their data was swiped in cyber snafu

Fashion house Dior has begun dropping data breach notices after cybercrooks with a taste for high-end targets made off with customer data. LVMH-owned Dior, the French purveyor of overpriced frocks and fragrances, confirmed in a breach notification letter filed with California's attorney general that US customer data had been …

[Anonymous Coward]

Apparently the hackers were tracked through the Internet to a little black address.

[Anonymous Coward]

Whatever they were wearing, they were caught with their knickers down.

[An_Old_Dog]

Yet Again

...dates of birth, and, in some cases, a passport or government ID number. A lucky few also had their Social Security Numbers thrown into the mix.

WTF is a corporation doing with this data, and how did they get it in the first place? Did their customers willingly supply it?

[Homo.Sapien.Floridanus]

Re: Yet Again

... keeping all that data doesn't make a lot of scent.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Yet Again

Something stinks for sure.

[Falmari]

The company claims the incident was contained

"The company claims the incident was contained"

Contained that's not how you say "only discovered 3 moths later".