What happened
In September 2023 Pizza Hut Australia notified around 193,000 customers of a breach exposing names, delivery addresses and delivery instructions, email addresses and phone numbers; for online accounts, masked (not full) credit-card data and one-way-encrypted passwords were also involved [bleeping-ph].
Timeline
- 2023-09 — Pizza Hut Australia disclosed the breach; a company spokesperson put the number affected at ~193,000 [bleeping-ph].
Current status
Disclosed; customers notified and the OAIC notified. The ~193,000 figure is the company’s, as reported [bleeping-ph].
Why it matters
A mainstream consumer brand breach — the kind of everyday service that quietly holds a lot of customer data.