"Millions" of customers of the American Web site warned of cyber theft

The sports brand Adidas website may have been hacked. The company admitted Thursday night that millions of usernames and encrypted passwords had been stolen.

The company said in a brief statement that it had become aware of "the potential data security incident" on June 26. "He pointed out that there was" no reason to believe "that the credit card details had been exploited.

" Adidas pledges to protect privacy and security personal data of its consumers. "" Adidas immediately began to take steps to determine the magnitude of the issue and alert the concerned consumers. Adidas works with leading data security companies and law enforcement authorities to investigate the problem. The preliminary survey suggests that the magnitude of the data leak could be significant. "We are alerting some consumers who have purchased on adidas.com/US a potential data security incident," said an Adidas spokesperson at Newsweek adding: "For the". moment, it represents a few million consumers. " [19659002] An Adidas panel is seen before the company's annual press conference in Herzogenaurach, Germany, on March 14, 2018. The company revealed Thursday that a few million customers had been caught off guard . REUTERS / Michael Dalder

But there is still a lot of stuff on cyber-theft, including a time scale where suspicious hacking took place, what are the techniques used to access the data and exactly how many details were stolen.

Adidas declined to comment when asked about specific problems.

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The news comes as a result of a Ticketmaster cyber attack that revealed personal information of up to 40 000 of its customers online UK The company said it found "malicious software" on a customer support product hosted by Inbenta Technologies on June 23. Stolen details include names, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, payment details and login details. Under Love revealed that it has discovered a "security problem" affecting approximately 150 million user accounts related to its application and its "MyFitnessPal" website. The compromised information, they said, included the user names, email addresses, and hashed passwords.

Incidents of this type are becoming more and more common, with hackers exploiting obsolete software.

Adidas did not specify which cybersecurity companies it had written to analyze and repair its computer systems, nor how long would it take for the forensic analysis to be completed.