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Adidas warns U.S. customers of new data breach

Customers who made purchases from the U.S. website may have had data exposed to an unidentified third party.
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U.S. Customers who made purchases via the company's website were impacted. (Pexels)

Multinational athletic apparel company Adidas is the latest corporate titan to have a data breach.

The company announced on Thursday that customers who made purchases from the U.S. website may have had data exposed to an unidentified third party.

“On June 26, Adidas became aware that an unauthorized party claims to have acquired limited data associated with certain Adidas customers,” the company’s alert said.

Exposed data includes encrypted passwords, usernames and contact information. The company said they believe customers’ financial and fitness data was not impacted.

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The company and law enforcement are conducting investigations.

CyberScoop has reached out to Adidas for more information.

This story is developing.

Patrick Howell O'Neill

Written by Patrick Howell O'Neill

Patrick Howell O’Neill is a cybersecurity reporter for CyberScoop based in San Francisco.

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