Dell leaks customer addresses and other data; attacker claims 49 million records stolen
Dell disclosed a breach of a database containing customers' physical addresses and other information, and notified customers. The attacker claimed to have stolen 49 million customer records by abusing an API. A lawsuit was subsequently filed, and Ireland's data protection regulator opened an investigation.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Dell
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Leak of customer addresses and other data; attacker claims 49 million customer records
- Cause / method
- Theft of customer records through API abuse
- Location
- Other countries
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Exposed dataAddress
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Timeline
- Dell disclosed the customer data breach, and claims emerged that 49 million people were affected.
- A lawsuit over the theft of customer records through API abuse and the database breach came to light.
- Ireland's data protection regulator confirmed it was investigating the Dell data breach.
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