"CBS, Paramount Owner National Amusements Says it was Hacked"

National Amusements, the cinema chain and corporate parent giant of media giants Paramount and CBS has recently confirmed it experienced a data breach in which hackers stole the personal information of tens of thousands of people.  The company announced that the hackers stole personal information from 82,128 people during a December 2022 data breach.  Details of the December 2022 breach only came to light a year later, after the company began notifying those affected last week.  The company says it discovered the breach months later, in August 2023, but did not say what specific personal information was taken.  The data breach notice filed with Maine said that hackers also stole financial information, such as banking account numbers or credit card numbers, in combination with associated security codes, passwords, or secrets.

 

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