Pitchfork reports record company Beggars Group, owner of several independent labels, has suffered a data breach. Beggars released a letter saying its online stores have been hacked, and customers’ sensitive information, including credit card numbers, customers’ names, addresses and phone numbers, may have been compromised. “On May 4, 2016, we were advised by our third-party website developer that it had identified and removed suspicious files from the e-commerce websites of the record labels for which Matador Direct is the distributor,” Matador president and co-owner Patrick Amory wrote in the letter. “We quickly began an investigation and hired a third-party cybersecurity firm to assist us.” Potential victims of the attack are individuals who ordered from the stores between April 28, 2015 and May 4, 2016. Beggars did not reveal the number of affected accounts.
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