{"id":931371,"date":"2026-10-17T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931371\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:58:10","slug":"napoleon-perdis-data-breach-affects-340000-of-the-cosmetics-companys-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931371\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoleon Perdis data breach affects 340,000 of the cosmetics company&#8217;s clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Cosmetics company Napoleon Perdis has been hit by a data breach, affecting almost 340,000 customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In an email to customers, the company said it was informed in June that a third party it had used to store customer records, Retail Express, had been hit by a cyber attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;In August 2026, Retail Express confirmed the unauthorised party had access between November 2025 and June 2026, affecting approximately 339,055 customer records,&#8221; the email said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Napoleon Perdis stands with makeup brush in his hand as he applies eye shadow to a seated model. He wears a black blazer.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1062ac4f0af1d04f5c802a8e0257042f.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The brand was launched in Sydney in 1995 by makeup artist and businessman Napoleon Perdis. (AAP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The incident has been contained and the system permanently shut down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Napoleon Perdis said the breach affected its customers from pre-June 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The information accessed included customer names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses and purchase histories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;This system did not hold your bank account or card details, or the password for your napoleonperdis.com account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Our current online store \u2026 was not affected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Napoleon Perdis warned customers to be wary of scam calls or emails impersonating the company and advised them to monitor their bank transactions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has been notified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cosmetics company Napoleon Perdis has been hit by a data breach, affecting almost 340,000 customers. In an email&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,29809,43671,43674,14279,8886,497931],"class_list":["post-931371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-cosmetics","tag-cyber-attack","tag-cyber-crime","tag-data-breach","tag-hacking","tag-napoleon-perdis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}