(Bloomberg) -- Dow Jones, owner of the Wall Street Journal, said payment card and contactinformation belonging to fewer than 3,500 current and formersubscribers may have been accessed, though it found no directevidence that any information was stolen.
|The media company owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. notifiedcustomers Friday in a letter that it “recently determined there wasunauthorized access to our systems.”
|Related: Cyber risk survey finds majority of businesses werehacked in 2014
|Dow Jones is working with law enforcement and a cybersecurity firm to investigate theincident, according to the letter signed by Dow Jones ChiefExecutive Officer William Lewis. He said it was likely part of abroader campaign “involving a number of other victim companies” andaimed at collecting subscribers’ contact information to commitfraud. The company said that the number of customers whosecontact data only may have been accessed is unknown.
|“While we recognize that no company is immune to cyberattacks,we are committed to doing everything we can to protect ourcustomers,” Lewis said.
|Copyright 2018 Bloomberg. All rightsreserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten,or redistributed.
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