Dickโs data breach overview:ย
- Who: Dickโs Sporting Goods confirmed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month that it suffered a data breach.ย
- Why: The sporting goods retailer says it discovered Aug. 21 that there had been unauthorized third-party access to its information systems, including portions containing โcertain confidential information.โย
- Where: Dickโs operates around 800 store locations around the U.S.ย
Dickโs Sporting Goods disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) thatย it suffered a data breach the sporting good retailer says exposed confidential information.ย
In a disclosure filed Aug. 28, Dickโs told the SEC it had discovered a week earlier that there had been unauthorized thirdโparty access to its information systems, including portions of its systems that contain โcertain confidential information.โย
The company told the SEC it has notified federal law enforcement about the incident, activated its security response plan and engaged with its external cybersecurity experts to โinvestigate, isolate and contain the threat.โย
โThe Companyโs investigation of the incident remains ongoing. Based on the Companyโs current knowledge of the facts and circumstances related to this incident, the Company believes that this incident is not material,โ Dickโs said in its filing.ย
Dickโs data breach latest to affect major company
Tech and cybersecurity news website Bleeping Computer, meanwhile, reports an anonymous source informed it that Dickโs has told employees not to speak publicly about the data breach incident.ย
Dickโs, according to the Bleeping Computer source, has also shut down its email systems in the wake of the data breach and locked employees out of their accounts.ย
The source reportedly added Dickโs IT staff has been manually validating employeesโ identities via camera, in order for them to be able to regain access to its internal systems.ย
Phone lines at local Dickโs stores have also been shut down in the wake of the data breach, according to Bleeping Computer, which said it received out of service messages when trying to contact more than 20 store locations throughout the U.S.ย
The data breach is the latest to affect a major company. Toyota also confirmed a data breach in August that the automaker said exposed the data of customers and employees.ย
Toyota confirmed the data breach after a hacker posted on an underground hacking forum that they had stolen files from a U.S. branch of the automaker.ย
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