Easton-Bell Sports is owned by private equity firm Fenway Partners and produces sporting equipment including helmets for football, biking, bats, and more.
Statement by the company:
Easton-Bell Sports, Inc. (“Easton-Bell”), which includes Easton, Bell, Riddell, Giro, Blackburn and Easton Cycling, recently discovered that vendor servers were subject to a malicious software (“malware”) computer intrusion. We believe the incident may have begun on December 1, 2013. The servers that were accessed contained Easton-Bell e-commerce consumers’ information and may impact customers who made online purchases between December 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013. This may have included personal information, such as name, address, telephone number, email, and credit card number along with the three or four digit credit card security code on the card provided. Upon discovery of this intrusion, we immediately shut down the affected servers and took steps to prevent further access to this information, including cleaning and rebuilding the affected servers.
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The company is offering 24 months of credit monitoring. Application instructions are contained in a sample of the letter sent to consumers dated 1/17/2014.
http://www.eastonbellsports.com/connecticut-letter/
1/21/2014 Size & Scope
Size:According to the below, 6,000 consumers who used the online store were affected.
Scope: As previously revealed what was taken was extensive.
personal information: name, address, telephone number, email
financial information: credit card number and the 3 or 4 digit CVV security code
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304027204579335030562766174?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304027204579335030562766174.html
