![]() ![]() ![]() When asked for comment on the email, a LivingSocial PR spokesman confirmed the attack and that 50 million customers were impacted. This is the latest big data breach in the consumer Internet space, which has seen troublesome incursions into some high-profile companies recently, including Zappos, LinkedIn and Evernote. One positive note in a not-so-positive situation: The email sent to employees and customers noted that neither customer credit card nor merchant financial information was accessed in the cyber attack. All of LivingSocial’s countries across the world appear to have been affected, except in Thailand, Korea, Indonesia and the Philippines, as LivingSocial units Ticketmonster and Ensogo there were on separate systems. The breach has impacted 50 million customers of the Washington, D.C.-based company, who will now be required to reset their passwords. The hack includes customer names, emails, birthdates and encrypted passwords. LivingSocial, the daily deals site owned in part by Amazon, has suffered a massive cyber attack on its computer systems, which an email from CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy - just sent to employees and obtained by - said resulted in “unauthorized access to some customer data from our servers.”
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