"Last week, pet products and services giant Petco confirmed that it experienced a data breach involving customers' personal information, without specifying what type of data was affected. On Friday, in a legally required filing with Texas' attorney general's office, Petco reported that the affected data included: names, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, financial information such as account numbers, credit or debit card numbers, and dates of birth."
"California's attorney general published a sample letter that Petco is sending to its customers. The message said Petco discovered an issue with "a setting within one of our software applications that inadvertently allowed certain files to be accessible online," that the company "immediately took steps to correct the issue and to remove the files from further online access," and that it "corrected" the setting and implemented unspecified "additional security measures." The company is offering free credit and identity theft monitoring services to victims."
Petco experienced a data breach that involved customer personal information, including names, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, financial account numbers, credit or debit card numbers, and dates of birth. The company filed legally required notices in Texas, California, Massachusetts, and Montana, reporting one affected resident in Massachusetts and three in Montana. The California filing did not disclose an exact victim count but implies more than 500 California residents were affected. A software application setting inadvertently allowed certain files to be accessible online; the files were removed, the setting was corrected, and additional security measures were implemented. Free credit and identity theft monitoring is being offered to affected individuals, and the total number of affected customers was not disclosed.
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