ShinyHunters Target Chanel in Salesforce Linked Data Breach

The luxury fashion brand Chanel has announced that it suffered a data breach, affecting some of its customers in the United States. Chanel has sent a letter to clients stating that it became aware on July 25 of a security incident involving a US database hosted by a third-party service.

This database, which was part of the company’s Salesforce environment, was accessed by an outside party who obtained client information. A spokesperson for Chanel confirmed the security incident, explaining that an investigation found there was unauthorised access to the database.

“Based on the findings of the investigation, the data obtained by the unauthorised external party contained limited details of a subset of individuals who contacted our client care centre in the US,” the statement reads.

The company claims that no malicious software was used on their systems, and its daily operations were not affected. The breach only exposed limited ...