When you sign up for an account, your information is stored by the company or service so you can, or the company, access it as needed. It’s a perfectly normal part of the digital age — handing out our full names, addresses, credit card info and more.
And as long as that information is out there sitting in servers, hackers will try to access it. One unsecured database or shoddy security practice, and millions of people can be exposed. Tap or click here to read how 60 million health records were exposed in a breach.
This week, luxury department store chain Neiman Marcus revealed that its customers’ data was exposed in a hack. Read on to see if your account is part of the breach, what was revealed and what you can do about it.
Details of the data breach
While the announcement is new, the breach isn’t. Neiman Marcus Group says it learned of a May 2020 data breach just this month. The company says it informed law enforcement and is working with cybersecurity firm Mandiant to investigate how it happened.
The personal information accessed in the breach varies for different customers and includes:
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