Customers of Australian company Vinomofo are the latest victims of personal information exposure after the wine dealer suffered a major cyber-attack.
Personal information including names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and genders of customers are at risk of exposure.
It is not yet clear if all of Vinomofo’s 500,000 customers were exposed but all have been warned to remain on high alert of scam activity after the hack.
Vinomofo said the risk to its members was “low” because other sensitive information such as passports, credit card details and driver’s licences were not held by Vinomofo.
The incident occurred after an unauthorised third party unlawfully accessed the database from a testing platform that is not linked to Vinomofo’s live website.
This latest breach follows a chain of attacks on telecommunications company Optus, health insurer Medibank, and more recently online retail store MyDeal.
All Australian organisations should take these incidents’ as a stark reminder of the importance of a strong cybersecurity position and strategy.