Bunnings keeping mum on details of data breach

Bunnings keeping mum on details of data breach
Bunnings is not the only company affected by the breach. (Image: supplied)
Henry Burrell
Bunnings is refusing to say how many New Zealand customers have been affected by a data breach.The retailer informed affected NZ customers on Jan 12 that a third party booking provider, FlexBooker, had suffered a data security breach. Bunnings said this may include the names and email addresses of customers who have booked a time slot for a Bunnings Drive & Collect order, a click and collect method popular during NZ’s late 2021 lockdown where people made online orders and drove to a store to have them placed in the back of their...

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