Kmart Australia is urgently addressing a security breach after the personal details of its online customers were hacked.
The external privacy breach of its customer online product order system occurred yesterday.
The breach included customers’ identity (name), email address, delivery and billing address, telephone number and product purchase details.
No online customer credit card or other payment details have been compromised or accessed.
Yesterday, an email was sent directly to those customers whose details were accessed to inform them of this situation.
Kmart Australia has also posted details of the breach on its social media pages.
This breach only impacts a selection of customers who have shopped online with Kmart Australia.
If customers have not received a message from Kmart Australia regarding this situation they have not been impacted.
As soon as Kmart Australia was made aware of this breach, immediate action was taken to stop any further information being accessed.
Kmart Australia has engaged leading IT forensic investigators and has contacted the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and Australian Federal Police to thoroughly review this matter.
Kmart Australia said it is unable to make any further comment at this time.