Online wine seller Vinomofo has disclosed a major data breach in which an intruder accessed customers’ personal information including names, dates of birth, addresses and contact details.
Vinomofo cited privacy and scam protection reasons to justify not disclosing precisely how many people were affected when a hacker accessed real customer data via a test platform, but the company has about 500,000 customers.
Major Australian businesses including Woolworths’ MyDeal website and health insurer Medibank Private have announced cybersecurity breaches in the weeks since Optus disclosed a hack last month when data on almost 10 million people was stolen.
Vinomofo discovered signs of the breach on September 27, after which it engaged a cybersecurity firm and alerted the government. But a spokesman said it waited to notify customers until the investigation “established unlawful access of a Vinomofo database did occur”.
