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2016 — 7: On behalf of the 7-Eleven franchisees, 7-Eleven…

2016 7.8K records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Personal information

Technical writeup

On behalf of the 7-Eleven franchisees, 7-Eleven maintains a database of records for each franchise location that contains information on all franchisee employees for that location.  Only the records in the database for the employees of a particular franchisee (Employing Franchisee) are sent to the local store and are available for access by the Employing Franchisee. 7-Eleven discovered in June 2016 that as a part of the update process, in addition to the normal set of employee records sent for e

Root cause

Unintended disclosure

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