Cyber incident at JD Sports

30/01/2023

Athletic apparel and retail group JD Sports has said it has suffered “a cyber incident” that  resulted in the unauthorised access to customer data from online orders placed between November 2018 and October 2020.

The information that may have been accessed consists of the name, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, order details and the final four digits of payment cards of approximately 10 million customers.

Chief finance officer, Neil Greenhalgh, said: “We want to apologise to those customers who may have been affected by this incident. We are advising them to be vigilant about potential scam e-mails, calls and texts and providing details on how to report these.”