The Australian and New Zealand website of cosmetic retailer Lush has been a target of hackers.
The lush.com.au site has been completely pulled with a message advising customers to “urgently” contact their banks and cancel their credit cards if they have place an online order with Lush Australia and New Zealand.
“Lush is working with the police, forensic investigators and banks and doing all that we can to investigate the beach in privacy,” Lush said on its site.
“We are currently in the process of contacting each of our online customers individually by email.”
This issue comes after the company’s UK was also recently compromised by hackers, but the company said that the two matters are not linked.
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It is not lawful to keep your customers credit card details. We have a On Line Gift company and are appauled,this is not the first time this has happened in Australia, usually with large companies who I would have thought would know the legislation and have a budget to get the necessary decripting software which we have always had. This is not good for Australian on line businesses, giving us a bad reputation due to only a few companies that are focussing on other options and keeping details for these uses. Why else would they want to keep these details?
Posted by Gloria Stanbury.
16/02/2011 02:09:57 PM
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