Major electronics store sees millions of user records allegedly leaked online

• A database stolen in a 2024 ransomware attack is being offered for free
• It was grabbed from the French retail company Boulanger Electroménager & Multimédia.
• It affects at least a million people

Sensitive customer information stolen from a French electronics shop in 2024 has now surfaced online and is being offered for free, according to cybersecurity researchers Safety Detectives, who analyzed a sample of the data, confirmed its authenticity, and traced its source.

The researchers said that they recently discovered a forum thread, on the clearweb, offering a database allegedly belonging to Boulanger Electroménager & Multimédia, a French retail company founded in 1954 specializing in household appliances and multimedia products, offering a wide range of items through its extensive network of stores and online platform.

The post contained two links, one to an unparsed, and one to a clear dataset. The former contained a 16GB .JSON file with more than ...