Warner Music Group (WMG), the world's third-largest music company, has revealed a data breach affecting its customers' personal and financial information at many of the US-based e-commerce stores in April 2020 with an attack on Magecart .
With a history of over 200 years, WMG has more than 3.500 employees and operates in more than 70 countries through a network of affiliates and other partners.
WMG also owns Warner Chappell Music and some of the most successful record labels Companies in the world, including examples from Elektra, Warner Records, Atlantic, Warner Classics, Parlophone and Warner Music Nashville.
Online stores in the US have been in jeopardy since April
The company said the incident involved several e-commerce sites operating through an outside service provider and that the security breach probably allowed hackers to steal their personal information.
Although WMG's investigation found no signs leakageof information, does not exclude the possibility of something happening in the future and warns its members about the dangers.
Credit card details may have been stolen
WMG also said the stolen information may include customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, billing addresses, shipping addresses and its cardof payment (card number, CVC/CVV and expiry date).
WMG did not provide information on how the attackers were able to break into its systems.
