JD Sports hit by cyber-attack – 10 million customer records stolen

JD Sports has said data relating to 10 million customers might be at risk after it was hit by a cyber-attack.

This attack affects brands including JD, Size?, Millets, Blacks, Scotts and MilletSport.

The information that may have been accessed by the attackers consists of the name, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, order details and the final four digits of payment cards of approximately 10 million customers.

Following this news shares dipped by 0.6%.

JD Sports chief financial officer Neil Greenhalgh said: “We want to apologise to those customers who may have been affected by this incident. We are advising them to be vigilant about potential scam e-mails, calls and texts and providing details on how to report these.”

“We are continuing with a full review of our cyber security in partnership with external specialists following this incident. Protecting the data of our customers is an absolute priority for JD.”

At the time of publication we are not aware of how this cyber incident occurred.