Luxottica data breach: 77.1M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-05-19
In March 2021, the world's largest eyewear company Luxoticca suffered a data breach via one of their partners that exposed the personal information of more than 70M people. The data was subsequently sold via a popular hacking forum in late 2022 and included email and physical addresses, names, genders, dates of birth and phone numbers. In a statement from Luxottica, they advised they were aware of the incident and are currently "considering other notification obligations". Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, phone numbers, physical addresses. The breach dates from Mar 16, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 19, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a Luxottica account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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