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Adidas Customer Contact Information Exposed in Third-Party Breach

Adidas has begun strengthening safeguards to address vulnerabilities among third-party providers

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Overview

  • Attackers infiltrated a third-party customer service provider and accessed names, email addresses and phone numbers of customers who had contacted support
  • Adidas confirmed that no payment information or passwords were compromised in the incident
  • The company has notified impacted users and reported the breach to data protection regulators and law enforcement as required
  • Adidas has not disclosed the total number of affected customers or broken down the impact by region
  • The breach highlights growing cybersecurity risks in vendor networks and has prompted Adidas to bolster its third-party security protocols