Children’s apparel company Hanna Andersson discloses data breach

Hanna Andersson, a children’s clothing company with stores across the country, has told customers that their card payment data may have been compromised in a security breach last year. For nearly two months from mid-September to mid-November, an “unauthorized third party” had access to card payment information that certain customers entered as they were checking out at Hanna Andersson’s website, Mike Edwards, the company’s CEO, said in a Jan. 15 letter to customers viewed by CyberScoop. The exposed data included payment card numbers, expiration dates, and CVV codes, along with customers’ names, billing addresses, and shipping addresses. Law enforcement officials recently told executives at Portland, Oregon-based Hanna Andersson that there was evidence of a breach, Edwards said. It is unclear how many customers were affected by the incident. While it doesn’t appear that every customer who visited the website during the two month period was victimized, Edwards said, the company […]

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