Cosmetics giant, Estée Lauder, has come under scrutiny as its database exposed around 440 million data records, according to researchers.
The records were said to have contained email addresses but didn’t include any sensitive employee information.
The company issued the following statement: “On January 30, 2020, we were made aware that a limited number of non-consumer email addresses from an education platform were temporarily accessible via the Internet. This education platform was not consumer-facing, nor did it contain consumer data. We have found no evidence of unauthorised use of the temporarily accessible data. The Estee Lauder Companies takes data privacy and security very seriously. As soon as we became aware, we took immediate action to secure the data and notify appropriate parties.”
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