Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. has confirmed a data breach involving customer personal information stored in an e-commerce database. The breach affected individuals who had e-commerce accounts with Canadian Tire, SportChek, Mark’s/L’Equipeur, and Party City. Compromised data included names, addresses, emails, birth years, encrypted passwords, and partial credit card numbers. Approximately 150,000 account holders had their full birth dates exposed in the breach.
Canadian Tire assured that the breached information is insufficient to access accounts or make purchases, and there was no impact on in-store transactions. The company addressed the vulnerability identified on October 2 and is collaborating with security experts to bolster its security measures.