CEX suffers security breach that may affect up to two million customers

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UK shop CEX recently suffered an online security breach that may affect up to two million of its customers.
CEX, which deals in secondhand video games as well as other consumer electronics, said an unauthorised third party accessed its computer systems and some customer data was compromised.
The compromised data includes personal information such as first name, surname, addresses, email address and phone number, and "in a small number of instances", encrypted data from expired credit or debit cards. CEX stressed that it did not have any current card data stored for customers' accounts as it ceased storing customer card details in 2009.
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