CBS Paramount owner National Amusements says it was hacked TechCrunch

pNational Amusements the cinema chain and corporate parent giant of media giants Paramount and CBS has confirmed it experienced a data breach in which hackers stole the personal information of tens of thousands of peopleppThe private media conglomerate said in a legally required filing with Maines attorney general that hackers stole personal information on 82128 people during a December 2022 data breachppDetails of the December 2022 breach only came to light a year later after the company began notifying those affected last weekppAccording to Maines notice the company discovered the breach months later in August 2023 but did not say what specific personal information was taken The data breach notice filed with Maine said that hackers also stole financial information such as banking account numbers or credit card numbers in combination with associated security codes passwords or secretsppThe stolen data may relate to the companys employees since the data breach notification letter was submitted by the companys human resources chiefppBut the media giant has said little else about the breach or whether the personal information of its customers or users are also affected Its not clear what kind of cyberattack the company experienced or whether the company received a ransom demand or subsequently paid the hackersppSpokespeople for CBS and Paramount did not commentppNational Amusements owns more than 1500 cinemas across the United States but the company is best known for its controlling stake in Paramount and CBS following the ViacomCBS merger in 2019ppParamount disclosed a separate security incident in August according to a filing with the Massachusetts attorney general in which hackers took personal information on an unspecified number of customers The hackers stole Paramount customer names and dates of birth as well as Social Security numbers or other governmentissued identification numbers according to the noticeppDisclosure Zack Whittaker previously worked at CBS prior to August 2018 Updated with acknowledgement of incident by National Amusements spokespersonppCBS and Viacom are merging into a combined company called ViacomCBSppp