National Amusements, the movie theater chain and parent company of media giants Paramount and CBS, acknowledged that it had experienced a data breach in which hackers stole the personal information of tens of thousands of people.
The private media conglomerate said: Legally required filings with the Maine Attorney General Hackers allegedly stole the personal information of 82,128 people in a data breach in December 2022.
Details of the December 2022 breach were finally revealed a year after the company began notifying those affected last week.
The company discovered the breach several months later, in August 2023, according to Mayne’s notice, but did not specify what personal information was stolen. The hackers also stole financial information, such as bank account numbers and credit card numbers, in combination with associated security codes, passwords and confidential information, according to a data breach notification filed in the state of Maine.
The data breach notification was submitted by the company’s human resources director, so the stolen data may relate to the company’s employees.
But the media giant has said little else about the breach or whether the personal information of its customers and users is also affected. It is not clear what type of cyberattack the company suffered, or if it received a ransom demand or subsequently paid the hackers.
National Amusement spokeswoman Rachel Luray did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday. Spokespeople for CBS and Paramount also had no comment.
National Amusements owns more than 1,500 movie theaters across the United States, but the company is best known for its control of Paramount and CBS following the Viacom-CBS merger in 2019.
Paramount disclosed another security incident in August, according to Filings with Massachusetts Attorney General, an incident in which a hacker stole the personal information of an unspecified number of customers. The hackers also stole Paramount customers’ names and dates of birth, as well as Social Security numbers and other government-issued identification numbers, according to the notice.
Disclosure: Zack Whitaker worked at CBS before August 2018.
Source: techcrunch.com
