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Dis-Chem Third-Party Breach (April 2022)

📅 2022-04-01 🏢 Not disclosed
Primary Source ↗

Incident Details

Dis-Chem says it won’t share more info on data breach that hit 3.6m clients | News24. In April an “unauthorised person” accessed 3.6 million customers’ first names, surnames, email addresses and cellphone numbers, after hacking into one of Dis-Chem’s third-party service providers. Pharmacy retailer Dis-Chem said it won’t sharing further information on the data breach that compromised the personal details of 3.6 million of its customers. In April, an “unauthorised person” accessed customers’ first names, surnames, email addresses and cellphone numbers, after hacking into one of Dis-Chem’s third-party service providers.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Compromise of third-party service provider / vendor relationship
Vendor / Product
Not disclosed
Supply Chain Attack
✅ Confirmed third-party / vendor compromise

Timeline

  1. 2022-04-01 Breach occurred
  2. 2022-05-18 Publicly disclosed