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Hackers linked to the ShinyHunters extortion group have claimed responsibility for a data breach affecting Spanish fashion retailer exposing information belonging to more than 197,000 customers. The breach was identified through which analyzed leaked data and found nearly 197,400 unique email addresses along with geographic locations, order IDs, product SKUs, and support ticket details. Zara’s parent company stated that the compromised databases were hosted by a former technology provider and not on its active systems. Inditex emphasized that no sensitive customer information such as names, phone numbers, home addresses, passwords, or payment card data was exposed. The company also confirmed that its operations and internal infrastructure were not impacted by the incident. According to the company, the breach originated from a security issue involving a third-party provider that served multiple international businesses. Authorities were notified immediately, and security protocols were activated. However, Inditex has not publicly identified the affected vendor or officially attributed the attack to any threat actor. ShinyHunters later leaked a 140GB archive allegedly stolen from BigQuery environments using compromised Anodot authentication tokens. The group previously told media outlets that it had targeted numerous companies through stolen credentials and social engineering campaigns. These attacks reportedly focused on Microsoft Entra, Okta, and Google SSO accounts to gain access to connected SaaS platforms such as Salesforce, Slack, Adobe, Zendesk, Dropbox, and Google Workspace. The cybercriminal group has been associated with several major breaches in recent years, targeting organizations including Google, Cisco, Vimeo, Match Group, and Udemy. Another Spanish retailer also disclosed a recent breach involving customer marketing data after one of its vendors was compromised.