- Louis Vuitton Korea confirms cyberattack and data theft
- No financial data was taken
- Luxury fashion marks are actively targeted these days
Cyber criminals broke into the Korean subsidiary of luxury brand Louis Vuitton and stole sensitive files, the company has confirmed.
“We regret to inform that an unauthorized third party was temporarily accessing our system, which resulted in leakage of some customer information,” the company allegedly said in a statement published on its local site.
The company informed the government authorities and moved to secure its infrastructure and data and confirmed that some information was taken into the violation, but financial files were not among them.
Scattered Spider’s fingerprints
Other details of the attack are scarce – we don’t know when the attack happened, how Miscreans violated the company or whatever they were looking to achieve. We also do not know if they required any ransom in exchange for the stolen files or whether encryption was inserted.
However, we see a pattern in cyber criminals aimed at large luxury brands. In early June 2025, the French luxury brand Cartier warned customers that some of their sensitive personal information was stolen in a data violation.
Two weeks before, in mid-May 2025, Dior experienced the same thing after finding an unauthorized third party that gained access to some of the data it has for Dior Fashion and Accessories customers. Around the same time, Victoria’s Secret, another major fashion brand, filed a new form to the US SEC confirming the recovery of systems after a break.
Although not confirmed in most cases, there were some reports attributed to all three of these to scattered spider – a loosely bound organization of cyber criminals known to target specific industries at any time. The FBI recently warned of scattered spider shifting focus against US retailers. Although most of these are not US companies, they are big retail marks and as such are likely to be the target of scattered spider.
Via Pakinomist
