Dell Warns 49 Million Customers of Massive Data Breach

Dell has warned customers of a massive data breach following a hacker’s claims they accessed information belonging to roughly 49 million customers.

The U.S. computer manufacturer has started distributing data breach notifications to customers impacted by the incident, detailing how an attacker gained unauthorized entry to an online portal that housed customer purchase information on its website.

According to Dell’s data breach notification, it seems that the attack resulted in the theft of personal information only, without compromising any financial data. The information stolen includes names, physical addresses, as well as hardware and order details from its systems.

The company stated that it “promptly implemented our incident response procedures, began investigating, took steps to contain the incident and notified law enforcement.” It added that a third-party forensics firm has been engaged to investigate the matter and that it would continue to monitor the situation closely.

“We believe there is not a significant risk to our customers given the type of information involved,” Dell wrote in the email.

Some of the measures we need to take to protect ourselves from attacks;

• Always use the most up-to-date security measures on your system,

• A multi-factor authenticator must be used,

• Your system should always be updated with the latest version,

• Login logs should be monitored,

• IDS/IPS should be used to detect exploits.