Da­reece Po­lo

The Uni­com­er Group has con­firmed that it has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a cy­ber­at­tack against Courts, which is one of its sub­sidiaries.

Uni­com­er’s Trinidad and To­ba­go pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer, Sha­had Ali, told Guardian Me­dia that the breach oc­curred over a month ago, adding that cus­tomers were in­formed.

“We are aware of the breach, hav­ing no­ti­fied our cus­tomers about the same in Sep­tem­ber 2023. We are con­tin­u­ing our in­ves­ti­ga­tions and we will re­lease fur­ther up­dates on the mat­ter as soon as pos­si­ble,” Ali said.

On Sat­ur­day, cy­ber se­cu­ri­ty con­sul­tant, Gavin Den­nis, post­ed via X (for­mer­ly Twit­ter), that hack­ers al­leged­ly in­fil­trat­ed the Shop Courts web­site and stole da­ta on up to 200,000 or­ders.

The in­for­ma­tion re­port­ed­ly in­clud­ed cus­tomers’ names, ad­dress­es, phone num­bers, ac­count pass­words, pur­chas­ing da­ta, billing ad­dress­es, ship­ping ad­dress­es, pay­ment meth­ods and more.

Den­nis fur­ther claimed that some of the da­ta was leaked show­ing records of cus­tomer pur­chas­es from 2013 to 2023.

Sev­er­al Caribbean coun­tries were said to be af­fect­ed apart from Trinidad and To­ba­go in­clud­ing Ja­maica, Be­lize, St Lu­cia and Bar­ba­dos.