Beggars Group, a conglomerate comprised of some of the biggest independent record labels in the world, including 4AD, Matador, Rough Trade, and XL Recordings, have confirmed their online stores have been hacked.
As Pitchfork reports, confidential information including credit card data belonging to the group’s customers may have been exposed to the intruders. However, the group have not confirmed how many accounts may have been affected.
A letter from Beggars’ US distributor Matador Direct claimed customers who placed orders through the websites for Matador Direct-distributed labels between 28th April 2015 and 4th May 2016 may have had their data compromised.
In other words, if you bought an album by Vampire Weekend, St Vincent, the xx, Pavement, Interpol, Queens of the Stone Age, or Cat Power between April last year and May this year, your credit card may be at risk.
“On May 4, 2016, we were advised by our third-party website developer that it had identified and removed suspicious files from the e-commerce websites of the record labels for which Matador Direct is the distributor,” Matador president and co-owner Patrick Amory wrote in the letter.
Amory claims that if a customer “attempted to or did place an order on one of the affected websites” between the aforementioned dates, personal details including credit card numbers, name, address, and phone number may have been breached.
Customer passwords have since been changed and will need to be reset before the accounts can be used again. A Beggars spokesperson told Pitchfork that concerned customers can contact their dedicated call center at (877) 218-0056 and quote the ref number 7631070716.
