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The company also said it detected the data breach "over the last two weeks" and immediately appointed independent experts to investigate. Affected customers were notified as soon as the details of the incident had been verified.
A spokesperson from Brunswick Group, a strategy advisory firm working with Sephora Southeast Asia, told CNA that the company's regional databases operate independently.
Sephora customers who are not from the involved markets are "not affected in any way by this incident", the spokesperson said.
The external independent experts engaged by Sephora also concluded that there was "no major vulnerability" found on Sephora's Southeast Asia websites and also did not find any traces of a cyberattack.
"We can also confirm no credit card information was accessed and have no evidence that any personal data has been misused," the spokesperson added.
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7/31/2019 | 8:53:37 AM
And yes, the system is an overseas system but even with that said, they still have the same problems as those of us in the US (ask Capital One, ex. employee). But there really needs to be an oversight group that constantly monitors the systems on a monthly basis (dependent on the level of priority and risk).
Interesting, databases replicate with one another so if someone from Thailand flies to Malaysia or Singapore, then they should be able to access their data from anywhere. This is referred to as Transactional or Mirrored replication (dependent upon the distance the data replicates from an to, ACID based transactions but it also depends on the type of DB as well).
So this tells me, the hacker did not have enough time to do research, the data is segmented based on zones (n + 1) or the information they gave is incorrect and/or the actor was able to move horizontally to extract information using known tools in their arsenal without being detected.
The red-team from China could have done this because of their attention to detail (they clean up everything) or APT teams from Russia could have done this as well (I am not leaving out North Korea because this is practiced on a regular).
It sounds to me that this was an inside job but the case is still under investigation.
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