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The
breach is believed to have happened late last year, and affected
72 million email addresses, according to information cited by
the cybersecurity website Have I Been Pwned. Some of the records
taken also included personal information that included names,
genders, birthdates and ZIP codes.
In an Under Armour statement acknowledging its investigation
into the claims of a data breach, the Baltimore-based company
said: “We have no evidence to suggest this issue has affected
UA.com or systems used to process payments or store customer
passwords. Any implication that sensitive personal information
of tens of millions of customers has been compromised is
unfounded.”
Have I Been Pwned CEO Troy Hunt said that he agrees with Under
Armour's assertion, based on the information that has emerged so
far. But he also said he was surprised by the lack of an
official disclosure statement from the company.
“That’s unusual, especially given the size of the organisation,
the scale of the breach and the amount of time that has passed
since the incident,” Hunt, based in Australia, wrote by email
Thursday. “In their defence, they’re also the corporate victim
of malicious criminal activity and I’m sure they’ve had their
hands full dealing with the fallout.”
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