Anyvan, the European online marketplace that lets users buy delivery, transport or removal services from a network of providers, has confirmed it was the victim of a digital burglary that involved the theft of customers' personal data.
The company wrote to customers mid-last week to inform them of a "breach of security resulting in the unauthorised access to data from our user database," according to the email seen by The Register.
"This leaking of data came to our attention on the 31st December but we understand the incident itself occurred at the end of September. As soon as the incident came to our attention, our specialist IT team investigated it and have since taken the following remedial action: all passwords have been changed."
The data in question? "Customers' names, email and a cryptographic hash of their password were accessed and 'potentially viewed' but ..
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