Home furnishings retailer IKEA closed its online catalog order site last night after a privacy breach made the personal information of tens of thousands of its customers available online. The information had been exposed since at least Monday morning, when . . .
Home furnishings retailer IKEA closed its online catalog order site last night after a privacy breach made the personal information of tens of thousands of its customers available online. The information had been exposed since at least Monday morning, when an IKEA customer uncovered an unprotected database file containing customer records. The file, which was accessible until yesterday evening, contained the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of customers who ordered IKEA catalogs.

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