April 13 (Reuters) – Gym operator Basic-Fit has suffered a data breach involving “active members in several countries” and affecting around 200,000 of its clients in the Netherlands alone, it said on Monday.
Basic-Fit runs gyms in 12 countries across Europe and has more than 4.5 million members in France, Germany and Spain, among others.
• Breach involves members’ bank account details, names, birth dates and contact information
• Basic-Fit says the unauthorised access was detected by its system monitoring tools and was stopped within minutes
• Members whose data is involved have been informed, Basic-Fit says
• The company does not hold members’ identification documents and no passwords were accessed
(Reporting by Jakob Van Calster in Gdansk, editing by Milla Nissi-Prussak)
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