What we know about the Shoe Show data breach

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Shoe Show is the latest shoe retailer to suffer a data breach.

According to a notice filed with the Maine Attorney General last week, more than 12,800 people may have been affected by a cybersecurity breach that occurred between June 28 and July 6. In the filing, Shoe Show said the breach involved an unauthorized party gaining access to a Shoe Show employee email account. The breach was discovered on August 15.

Shoe Show informed affected customers of the incident by mail and said it had launched an internal investigation to determine the extent of the data use and was taking steps to prevent similar issues. future. In a statement, the Concord, North Carolina-based shoe retailer said it was “confident that no customer data was involved” in the breach.

“We recently learned that an unauthorized individual had temporary access to the email account of a Shoe Show, Inc. employee,” the retailer said. “After identifying the incident, we quickly secured the email account and launched an internal investigation. We have also engaged a leading forensic security company to assist us in our investigation and have confirmed the security of our email environment. We are confident that no customer data was involved.

Last year, VF Corp. worked with leading external cybersecurity experts to contain, assess and remediate a cybersecurity breach that occurred at the company on December 13. In an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, VF said the company detected unauthorized events. on part of its IT systems. And in 2022, The North Face suffered a credential stuffing attack on its website.

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