2nd UPDATE: LivingSocial cyber attack affects millions of customers

LivingSocial, the 2 nd-largest daily deal company behind Groupon Iraqi National Congress, same on Friday which will hit by a cyber attack that will have affected quite 50 million customers.

The company same the attack on its pc systems resulted in unauthorized access to client knowledge, as well as names, email addresses, date of birth for a few users and "encrypted" passwords.



LivingSocial stressed client mastercard and merchants' monetary and banking info weren't affected or accessed. It conjointly doesn't store passwords in plain text.

"We square measure actively operating with enforcement to research this issue," the corporate,in partnership with Amazon.com Inc, wrote in AN email to workers.

LivingSocial doesn't disclose what number customers it's. However, spokesperson Andrew Weinstein same "a substantial portion" of the company's client base was affected. LivingSocial is additionally contacting customers UN agency closed accounts, as a result of it still has their info hold on in databases.

The attack hit customers within the us, Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, New island, Malaysia, Southern Europe and geographical region. Customers in Asian nation, Indonesia, Philippines and Kingdom of Thailand weren't affected, Weinstein same.

"In light-weight of a latest thriving widespread attacks against major social networking sites, it's obvious that these suppliers square measure merely not doing enough to guard their customers' info," same martyr Tubin, senior security planner at Trusteer, a pc security company.

The attack comes as LivingSocial struggles to handle a decline in shopper and merchandiser demand for daily deals. the corporate raised $110 million from investors, as well as Amazon earlier this year, however was forced to create giant concessions to induce the new cash.

Amazon endowed $56 million in LivingSocial within the half-moon, in line with a restrictive filing on Friday, that conjointly unconcealed the corporate had a first-quarter operative loss of $44 million on revenue of $135 million.

LivingSocial same on Friday it absolutely was commencing to contact quite fifty million customers whose knowledge might are tormented by the cyber attack.

LivingSocial told customers in AN email that they ought to go surfing to LivingSocial.com to form a brand new countersign for his or her accounts.

"We conjointly encourage you, for your own personal knowledge security, to contemplate ever-changing password(s) on the other sites on that you utilize constant or similar password(s)," LivingSocial Chief govt Tim O'Shaughnessy wrote within the email.

"We square measure sorry this incident occurred."

All the Things reported  the cyber attack earlier on Friday.