H&M discloses customer data breach in South Korea
- Source
- The Korea Herald - Business
- Source link
- https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10842119
- Published
- 2026-08-14 21:04:52
- Discovered by ProcIntel
- 2026-08-14 12:11:38
- Category
- Procurement & Supply Chain News
- Geography
- South Korea
- Organisations
- —
- Review status
- Pending
- Record type
- REAL
Summary
Swedish fashion giant H&M has disclosed a data breach that exposed some of its customers’ personal information in Korea, the company said Friday. In a notice sent to members, H&M said it had confirmed an incident involving the unauthorized access and leakage of customer information through an attack on its business systems, believed to have occurred around Aug. 5. The company said it moved quickly to strengthen its security measures and launch an investigation after detecting the attack. Based o
Procurement Relevance Gate
- cyber_infrastructure_disruption (weight 8) — matched on "data breach"
- geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"
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