The fashion giant closes its website while adding the incident

If you visit the website right now www.victoriassecret.comyou will not see catalogs or special offers. Instead, a warning appears that reports a cybersecurity incident. Victoria’s Secret has temporarily closed its website and has suspended some services in store while investigating what happened.

A preventive measure. According to the company, the closure is part of a series of preventive actions adopted after detecting the incident. In the message they explain that they are “working tirelessly to completely restore operations”, although it is not specified when the page will be available again.

The closure does not affect all countries. Although Victoria’s Secret’s main site remains closed, the measure is limited to the international version with .com domain. The website for the Spanish market Follow operational, as we have been able to check, and shows no messages related to the incident or limited operation signs.

Many unknowns on the table. According to Bloombergin addition to the closure of the web and certain services in store, Victoria’s Secret has stopped part of its office operations. Some employees were left without access to their email accounts after password blocking, and customer service has also been paralyzed.

The executive director, Hillary Super, recognized in an internal note seen by the aforementioned means that the recovery “will take time.” Meanwhile, we know that the company works with experts to clarify what happened, but has not provided details about the type of attack, the actual scope of the incident or if any data gap has occurred.

It is not an isolated case. In recent weeks, several major brands of the textile and retail sector have also recognized cybersecurity incidents. Dior recently confirmed unauthorized access to customer data in China, Adidas noticed a gap In an external customer service provider, and Harrods, Marks & Spencer and Co-Op HIt has been the target of similar attacks in the United Kingdom. Of course, it is not clear if these cases are related,

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