National Amusements, the parent company of Paramount and CBS, has suffered a data breach that affected some 82,000 people.
As per the filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, the dats breach occurred between Dec. 13 and Dec. 15, 2022, before being detected on Aug. 23 this year.
Information that may have been stolen included financial account numbers or credit and debit card numbers, in combination with security codes, access codes, passwords or PIN codes for the affected account. National Amusements said it started to inform those affected on Dec. 22, a year and week after the breach occurred.
It is offering those affected complimentary credit services from Experian plc, and is encouraging users to remain vigilant against incidents of identity theft by reviewing their account statements and monitoring credit reports.
The breach isn’t the first to affect the company this year. Paramount, also in a notice to the Office of the Maine Attorney General, advised of a breach on Aug. 11 that occurred between May and June of this year. It involved an authorized third party accessing certain files.
Though the company says it has no evidence of any identity theft or fraud related to the event, it took eight months foe them to detect the breach and then four more months to inform victims actions that to do not inspire confidence in its cybersecurity competence.
Those affected should be aware that they may be targeted by phishing emails that exploit their stolen data to trick them into handing over more information.
