Customer data leaked at Tiffany Korea via access to supplier platform
Unauthorised access to a platform run by a supplier managing Tiffany Korea's customer data led to the leak of South Korean customers' personal information. The leaked items included names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, internal customer numbers and sales data. The company notified customers of the leak, and the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) launched an investigation.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Tiffany Korea
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- South Korean customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, internal customer numbers, sales data and more
- Cause / method
- Unauthorised access to the platform of a supplier managing customer data
- Location
- South Korea
If your data was exposed
Exposed dataNamePhone numberEmailAddressUsage & purchase history
- Don’t tap links in texts, calls or emails that mention this incident and offer compensation, refunds or breach checks. Check directly on the organisation’s official website or app.
- If you’ve suffered harm, report it. Call 118 (no area code) for privacy violations, contact the police for financial losses, and apply for dispute mediation to seek compensation.Personal Information Infringement Report Centre ↗Korean National Police Agency cybercrime report ↗Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee ↗
Timeline
- It emerged that Tiffany Korea had notified customers that South Korean customer data had been leaked through unauthorised access to a supplier's platform.
- It emerged that the Personal Information Protection Commission had launched an investigation into Tiffany's data leak.
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