Huge data breach at Australian fashion giant – 3.5 million users at risk, here’s what we know so far

• Security researcher find unencrypted database belonging to Australian fashion brand
• It contained names, email addresses, phone numbers, and more, of at least 3.5 million people
• SABO is warning users to be on their guard

Australian fashion brand SABO leaked sensitive data on millions of its customers by keeping an unencrypted, non-password-protected database on the internet, available to anyone who knew where to look.

Jeremiah Fowler, a security researcher known for discovering these types of leaks found a 292 GB archive, containing 3,587,960 .PDF documents containing names, physical addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and other personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to both retail and corporate SABO customers.