In October, Nordstrom experienced a data breach that exposed the employee personal data across 380 stores. Initially, Nordstrom addressed the situation by stating the exposure didn’t affect any customer data and was simply an error within the system, but a month later, Nordstrom is now claiming that a contract worker purposely misused the data.
According to reports, the contractor successfully exposed employee’s social security numbers, birthdates, salaries, and bank account information. However, although Nordstrom revoked all access from the contractor, they cannot confirm that this vulnerability was misused in any way. Nordstrom has offered their employees two years of prepaid identity theft monitoring services, which has become a consistent offering that most companies that are the victims of data breaches provide to those exposed.
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