The website operator Art.com, which sells art and posters, has been broken into by a hacker, the company has announced.
Credit card numbers and names of clients that used the company's sites between July and September this year were stolen. The company runs the websites Art.com and Allposters.com. Michael Heinstein, chief executive officer of Art.com, said: "We value our customers tremendously and understand how important security is to them.
"This is why we have acted to notify affected customers and credit card companies as quickly as possible after vigorously investigating this event." Art.com then swiftly took more action to make sure its sites were secured against "future attacks of this type", added Mr Heinstein. So far none of the credit card numbers that were stolen have been used in illegal transactions or for identity theft, Art.com stated.
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We wanted to clarify your post about the Art.com incident. We believe that only a limited number of transaction records between July and September were accessed by the hacker, not all of them. We are also not aware of any unauthorized use of the credit card numbers.
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