CeX Ltd. is one of the Internet’s biggest second-hand goods chain based in the United Kingdom specialising in technology, computing and video games.
The company has suffered a massive data breach and is currently in the process of reaching over two million customers it believes have been affected by the data breach.
CeX said in a statement on its website:
“We have recently been subject to an online security breach. We are taking this extremely seriously and wanted to provide you with details of the situation and how it might affect you. We also wanted to reassure you that we are investigating this as a priority and are taking a number of measures to prevent this from happening again.”
The company said that the stolen data contained customers’ names, addresses, emails, phone numbers and some old encrypted credit card information. It has asked users to change their password, especially if they reused their account password on separate websites.
CeX has stores all over the world, in countries such as the US, the UK (more than 300 stores), Australia, India, Spain, the Netherlands, and several others.
“Although your password has not been stored in plain text, if it is not particularly complex then it is possible that in time, a third party could still determine your original password and could attempt to use it across other, unrelated services. As such, as a precautionary measure, we advise customers to change their password across other services where they may have re-used their WeBuy website password.
