Dell discloses data breach impacting millions of customers

Dell disclosed a security breach that exposed millions of customers’ names and physical mailing addresses.

IT giant Dell suffered a data breach exposing customers’ names and physical addresses, the company notified impacted individuals.

The company launched an investigation into the incident that involved a Dell portal, which contains a database with limited types of customer information related to purchases from IT firm. The company downplayed the risk for the impacted individuals given the type of information involved.

“Dell Technologies takes the privacy and confidentiality of your information seriously. We are currently investigating an incident involving a Dell portal, which contains a database with limited types of customer information related to purchases from Dell. We believe there is not a significant risk to our customers given the type of information involved” reads the data breach notification sent to the impacted customers.

Compromised data include customers’ names, physical addresses, and hardware and order information, including service tags, item descriptions, dates of order and related warranty information.

The company added that financial or payment information, email address, telephone number or any highly sensitive customer information were not exposed.

The IT giant did not share further details about the security breach.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach)