The California Office of the Attorney General reported on October 10, 2018, that SHEIN experienced a data breach affecting approximately 6.42 million customers. The breach, which involved the theft of email addresses and encrypted password credentials, began in June 2018 and continued through early August 2018, and was identified on August 22, 2018.
Source: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-140625
TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/shein
"id": "she046072725",
"linkid": "shein",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "6/2018",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': '6.42 million',
'industry': 'Fashion',
'name': 'SHEIN',
'type': 'Retail'}],
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': '6.42 million',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['email addresses',
'encrypted password '
'credentials']},
'date_detected': '2018-08-22',
'date_publicly_disclosed': '2018-10-10',
'description': 'The California Office of the Attorney General reported on '
'October 10, 2018, that SHEIN experienced a data breach '
'affecting approximately 6.42 million customers. The breach, '
'which involved the theft of email addresses and encrypted '
'password credentials, began in June 2018 and continued '
'through early August 2018, and was identified on August 22, '
'2018.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['email addresses',
'encrypted password credentials']},
'references': [{'date_accessed': '2018-10-10',
'source': 'California Office of the Attorney General'}],
'title': 'SHEIN Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}