Vinomofo: Online Wine Retailer Faces Major Data Breach, Compromises Customers’ Personal Data

Online wine-selling company Vinomofo has recently experienced a major data breach. The data breach that affected more than 600,000 of its customers worldwide, could potentially be a threat to customers’ personal data, compromising their information including name, gender, date of birth, email address, and phone numbers.

As per the initial investigation of the security incident, the customer’s personal data that was accessed by an “unauthorised third party” was stolen via a testing platform. The testing platform was not linked to Vinomofo’s live website, the company stated.

“Vinomofo experienced a cybersecurity incident where an unauthorised third party unlawfully accessed our database on a testing platform that is not linked to our live Vinomofo website,” the chief executive, Paul Edginton, stated in the emails directed to the customers.

Vinomofo later confirms that the risk to its customers was “low” since other customer information such as passports, financial information, credit card details, and driver’s licenses were not accessed.

“Vinomofo does not hold identity or financial data such as passports, driver’s licences or credit cards/bank details. While no passwords, identity documents or financial information were accessed, the database includes other information

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