National Amusements Confirms Cyberattack; Paramount & CBS Parent Says 82,000 People Affected
deadline.comUPDATED with company statement: Shari Redstone’s National Amusements, the controlling shareholder of Paramount Global, has confirmed it was the victim of a hack that affected more than 82,000 people.
The corporate parent of Paramount Global and CBS and owner of the 1,500-screen theater chain Showcase Cinemas revealed in a legally required filing with Maine’s attorney general that hackers stole personal information on 82,128 people during a December 2022 data breach.
Details of the breach came to light just last week when the company began notifying those affected. According to the filing, the company discovered the hack, which occurred between December 13-15, 2022, eight months later in August but did not say what specific personal information was taken.
The filing noted that hackers also stole financial information, such as banking account numbers or credit card numbers, in combination with security code, access code, password or PIN numbers. “When we became aware of the incident, we engaged a leading forensic cybersecurity firm to investigate and contain it,” National Amusements said in a statement to Deadline. “As we clearly disclosed, based on our investigation, there is no indication of any identity theft or fraud as a result of this event.
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