“We believe there is not a significant risk to our customers given the type of information involved.”
A seller called Menelik put a Dell database on Breach Forums on April 28 and claimed 49 million customer records from purchases between 2017 and 2024. Dell confirmed a portal breach and refuses to say how many people it hit. The data has no emails or phone numbers, so the risk is a phishing letter or a tampered thumb drive in the mail that looks like it came from Dell. “Not a significant risk” is Dell grading its own homework.