- Green Bay Packers has notified customers of an October 2024 incident
- The threat actors installed a skimmer on the team’s online store
- An unknown number of people lost their credit card information
Fans of the Green Bay Packers NFL team looking to buy merch from the team’s ecommerce site may have had their sensitive data stolen, including payment information, the team has revealed.
I a data breach notification letter sent out to affected customers, the team spotted malicious code inserted in the Pro Shop website on October 23, and temporarily disabled all payment and checkout capabilities. It then brought in third-party cybersecurity experts to investigate, who determined an unknown threat actor had deployed a skimmer on the checkout page, which was active across September 23 and 24, and October 3 – 24.
On those days, the crooks managed to steal people’s names, addresses (both billing and shipping), email addresses, credit card types, credit card numbers, credit card expiration dates, and credit card verification numbers. More than enough to run wire fraud, identity theft, phishing, and more.
Contained and remedied
Purchases on the Pro Shop website that were made using a gift card, Pro Shop website account, PayPal, or Amazon Pay, were not affected, the company confirmed.
The incident has since been contained and remedied, Green Bay Packers said, adding its IT team, together with third-party cybersecurity experts, made sure the shop was now secure. “We also worked with our vendors that host and manage the Pro Shop website to confirm enhancements to their security protocols,” it said.
Customers are being offered 36 months of free credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services through Experian, but they will have to enroll themselves, since Green Bay Packers cannot activate the service on their behalf.
We don’t know exactly how many people might have been affected by this attack, and there is currently no information of the stolen data being misused anywhere on the dark web.