Bettys Tea Shop discovered on 8 May that its database had been breached and customer details copied but it has not revealed exactly when the breach is thought to have occurred, scmagazineuk.com reports. It blames an “industry-wide software weakness” but declined to specify which software was involved.
Bettys & Taylors notified customers yesterday via an email from director Paul Cogan, who promised to follow it up with a letter by post for those customers for whom it has a postal address.
According to the Bettys & Taylors' spokesperson, the data breach involved all of its registered online customers – 122,000 names. “For the vast majority of customers on our data base, the data copied is limited to name, email address and encrypted password,” she said.
