A hacker group called Pakistan Cyber Army (PCA) claims to have broken into the European website of hardware manufacturer Acer and stolen the personal information of 40,000 customers.
The Hacker News reports that in addition to customer information, PCA also stole proprietary source code and had complete access to the site's FTP account.
According to screenshots released by PCA, the compromised customer information includes full names, email addresses, full home addresses (with postal code, city and country) and phone numbers.
The data is organized by country in individual Excel spreadsheets. Judging by the names of the files listed in a screenshot, the non-European Acer customers are also affected.
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In addition to many European countries there are files for Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Cameroon, Egypt, Greenland, Kuwait, Malaysia, Philippines and Pakistan.
A screenshot of the hackers browsing the acer-euro.com ftp suggests the customer data was stored by Acer in an archive on the server.
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