2021 luxottica — Have I Been Pwned verified incident: Luxottica
Data compromised
Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses
Technical writeup
In March 2021, the world's largest eyewear company Luxoticca suffered a data breach via one of their partners that exposed the personal information of more than 70M people . The data was subsequently sold via a popular hacking forum in late 2022 and included email and physical addresses, names, genders, dates of birth and phone numbers. In a statement from Luxottica, they advised they were aware of the incident and are currently "considering other notification obligations". BreachHistory indexes the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) corpus for third-party breach disclosure and victim notification context; treat record counts and fields as disclosed in that source at time of indexing.
Root cause
Variations by incident; see HIBP narrative and linked disclosures where present.