Online retailer Zappos.com, a division of Amazon, is in the process of notifying the company's twenty-four million customers of a network security breach that exposed client records.
The company has indicated that names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and the last four digits of customer's social security numbers have been compromised.
The company stated that the databases that contain sensitive billing information, such as credit card numbers, was not accessed by hackers in the course of the breach, and that they are currently working with an investigation by law enforcement.
The attackers have not been identified - at least publicly - but given current trends it is most likely the work of either criminal syndicates gathering data for use in email phishing exploits, or possibly the work of anti-business hacktivists like those of the Anonymous movement.
Zappos.com anticipates an influx of inquiries related to the breach notification, and has instructed all employees to participate in customer service duties for an unspecified period of time.
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