CVS Photo Website Taken Down Due to Possible Hack
CVS shoppers hoping to order prints online through CVSPhotos.com will have to wait due to a possible security breach discovered on Friday. The website was shutdown and displayed a message informing visitors that there was a possible hack of the website, USAToday reported.
CVS said that they were informed that customer credit card information, that was collected by the independent vendor that runs CVSPhotos.com, may have been breached.
"As a precaution, as our investigation is underway we are temporarily shutting down access to online and related mobile photo services. We apologize for the inconvenience," said CVS Public Relations Director Mike DeAngelis, via email.
CVSPhotos.com is actually run by PNI Digital Media, a Canadian company, DeAngelis said.
Calls placed to PNI Digital Media by USAToday were not immediately returned. PNI Digital Media is owned by Staples Inc. Staples could not be reached Friday.
PNI Digital Media also ran Wal-Mart Canada's photo website. Last week, Wal-Mart said that the site had possibly been compromised as well. Wal-Mart decided to disable Walmartphotocentre.ca, and it still remains shutdown Friday.
Shoppers of CVS stores and CVS.com should be confident that their information was not affected by the possible breach of CVSPhotos.com. The photo business and retail business of CVS are completely separate from each other, the company informed customers.
"Nothing is more central to us than protecting the privacy and security of our customer information, including financial information. We are working closely with the vendor and our financial partners and will share updates as we know more," the note on the site read.
According to Fox Business, the mobile apps for CVS Photos have also been shut off. CVS is unaware how many customers could be affected by this possible breach of information.
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