Shoppers who made online purchases through Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. may have had their personal information compromised.
The retailer said Monday that it identified a data breach on Oct. 2 involving information stored in its e-commerce database.
The breached information belongs to shoppers who had an e-commerce account with Canadian Tire or its other banners, SportChek, Mark’s/L’Équipeur and Party City.
The data included names, addresses, emails and birth years as well as encrypted passwords and in some cases, incomplete credit card numbers. The credit card information that was available was akin to what would appear on store receipt, Canadian Tire said….