Data breach at alcohol delivery app Drizly hits 2.5 million accounts

Alcohol delivery app Drizly has been hit with a huge data breach affecting up to 2.5 million accounts, revealing customers' email addresses, birthdays, encrypted passwords, and even delivery addresses. You'd hope hackers would at least have the decency to leave our liquor alone amidst this incredibly trying pandemic, but apparently nothing is sacred.

In a statement to Mashable, Drizly said it first realised customers' data may have been compromised on July 13, and "quickly took steps to tighten security and further reduce risk of attack."

"In terms of scale, up to 2.5 million accounts have been affected," said Drizly. "Delivery address was included in under 2% of the records. And as mentioned in our email to affected consumers, no financial information was compromised." Read more...

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