7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people’s personal data

Data breach notification work Have I Been Pwned says a information breach astatine convenience store concatenation 7-Eleven affects implicit 185,000 people, including their names, dates of birth, and carnal addresses.

The information breach, reported successful April, besides included telephone numbers and email addresses.

Have I Been Pwned, which collects caches of information breaches and alerts affected individuals that their information was compromised, said in a caller listing that 7-Eleven was the unfortunate of a hack-and-extortion attack. The ShinyHunters radical took recognition for the breach, saying they would people the information if they weren’t paid.

Per a listing with Maine’s lawyer general’s office, 7-Eleven main accusation information serviceman Jim Kastle said the hackers gained entree to an interior server containing franchisee documents. A abstracted listing with Massachusetts’ lawyer wide said the breach besides included Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses.