Kitchenware retailer Lakeland has become the latest firm to fall prey to hackers after it emerged that hundreds of thousands of its customers may have had their personal data pinched.
In an apology to customers Lakeland acknowledged that two of its databases had been compromised last Friday, opening up the ‘small possibility’ that encrypted data could have been lost.
Stressing that there was no sign that credit or debit card details were included in this breach Lakeland is nevertheless urging anyone who has purchased from it to change their passwords on its website.
No word has been given on the volume of people affected but it is believed to include everyone who has ever done business with the retailer, a figure which would stretch into the hundreds of thousands.
In a statement Lakeland insisted it followed “stringent security procedures” to protect its customers and that “security and privacy” were its highest priorities... but that a ‘recently identified flaw’ in the server running its systems had gone undetected.