CBS & Paramount's parent co reports year-old data breach affecting over 80,000 people

While the company did not say what data had been stolen, the legal filing submitted said the breach contained financial information, banking account numbers and credit card numbers along with associated security codes and passwords

CBS and Paramount's parent company, National Amusements, has reported a year-old data breach that affected 82,128 people.

The case was first reported by TechCrunch, which read a legal filing with the US state of Maine's attorney general. The breach appears to have happened in December 2022.

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The company only began notifying people about the breach last week, and they only discovered the hack in August 2023. While the company did not say what data had been stolen, the legal filing submitted said the breach contained financial information, banking account numbers and credit card numbers along with associated security codes and passwords.

While it's not clear who was affected by the breach, the filing says that at least 64 of them were residents of Maine, and may have been employees at National Amusements.

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While the company says it, "immediately took steps to secure our network," the breach was only discovered in August 2023, which was eight months after the initial attack.

National Amusements said people who have had their social security numbers leaked, will receive 12 months of credit monitoring and identity threat services.