Basic-Fit data breach exposes details of a million gym members

(Reuters) - Gym operator Basic-Fit has suffered a data breach involving around 1 million members with 200,000 in the Netherlands alone, a company spokesperson said on Monday.

 

Basic-Fit owns gyms serving over 4.5 million customers across six European countries including France, Germany, and Spain. It also runs a franchise model in six other countries, which uses a separate system and was not affected by the leak.

 

• 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 noted it does not hold members’ identification documents and no passwords were accessed, adding that the main risk for affected members would be potential phishing attempts

 

(Reporting by Jakob Van Calster in Gdansk; Editing by Milla Nissi-Prussak and Joe Bavier)