Lazada suffers data breach; personal information from 1.1 million RedMart accounts for sale online

SINGAPORE: Personal information from 1.1 million RedMart accounts was stolen from e-commerce platform Lazada and sold online in a data breach.CNA had earlier come across an online forum which was purportedly selling personal data from various e-commerce sites around the world, including Lazada.

Screengrab of the online forum which is purportedly selling personal data from various e-commerce sites around the world, including Lazada."Our cybersecurity team discovered an individual claiming to be in possession of a RedMart customer database taken from a legacy RedMart system no longer in use by the company," a spokesperson from Lazada said in a statement referring to the online supermarket platform it acquired in 2016.

"This RedMart-only information is more than 18 months out of date and not linked to any Lazada database. The user information that was illegally accessed include names, phone numbers, email and mailing addresses, encrypted passwords and partial credit card numbers. We have taken immediate action to block unauthorised access to the database."

A spokesperson for the Personal Data Protection Commission said it was aware of the incident and was looking into the matter.

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