Η LaCie is a large retail company, technology products. The company was found to be targeting a major security breach by strangers.
The French company hardware confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that it had discovered malware on its systems. The malware had gained access to sensitive customer information from transactions made through its website.
And here's where things start to get really bad: Almost everyone who performed markets via the company's website in the last year is at risk, as reported by ZDNet.
The French company, which merged with the US manufacturer of hard drives Seagate, reported that it was informed about the 19 2014 violation in March by the FBI. But LaCie suspects that leaks of sensitive data have begun between 27 March 2013 and 10 March of 2014.
Brian Krebs, a former Washington Post reporter and security researcher who first reported the breach better safetyof Target last winter, says the blog that the website "had been hacked by a group of hackers who have hacked dozens of online stores using a security vulnerability in Adobe software ColdFusion. "
As for LaCie's spill, customer names, addresses, email addresses, payment card numbers, expiration dates, usernames, and passwords are all in the hands of hackers.
The company announced that it has begun to inform its customers of 11 April 2014.
Together with the FBI, the company announced that they are conducting investigations and trying to optimize the security of its online store. Meanwhile, her digital store will remain closed until fully secured.
