Russian pizza chain with 1,500 locations confirms cyberattack following hacker claims

What happened

“The attackers’ access has been blocked, and an internal investigation is ongoing,” Dodo Pizza said , adding that it had notified Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor about the incident. A hacking group calling itself DataSuckers claimed responsibility for the attack, saying on its Telegram channel that it had gained access to Dodo Pizza’s databases.

The group claimed it obtained records belonging to 68 million customers across multiple countries, along with 15 years of order history. According to Dodo Pizza, the potentially compromised information included customers’ names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and order details.

The company said it does not store customers’ payment information and that payment data was therefore not compromised. The company operates around 1,500 pizza restaurants across 28 countries. Its Russian business reported about $120 million in revenue this month, according to figures published on the company’s website.