The e-commerce company claims to have no evidence of a security breach in its systems, but it has detected that a third party may have used email addresses and passwords obtained from leaks elsewhere.

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Spanish electronics retailer PcComponentes denied claims by a hacker alleging theft of 16.3 million customer records. The company stated no unauthorized database access occurred, but detected credential stuffing attacks using credentials from external breaches. Affected data includes names, addresses, and contact details, but not payment information or passwords, which are tokenized and hashed respectively. PcComponentes implemented additional security measures to protect against future credential stuffing attempts.

Spanish e-retailer PcComponentes denies report it was hacked