Leak at Cuisinella
In December 2025, French kitchen retailer Cuisinella (Schmidt Groupe) disclosed that an unauthorized third party accessed customer contact details — title, first name, last name, phone number and email address — for thousands of customers; no bank, address or password data was exposed.
- Victim
- Cuisinella
On 5 December 2025, Cuisinella — the French fitted-kitchen and furniture retailer that, alongside Schmidt, is part of the Schmidt Groupe — notified customers that an unauthorized third party had gained access to some of their personal data. Thousands of French customers received an email from Schmidt or Cuisinella warning that contact details shared in connection with their relationship with a Cuisinella store may have been compromised.
The company described the incident as unauthorized external access to customer contact information rather than a financial or credential compromise. According to Cuisinella, the following categories of data were exposed:
- Title / civility
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Email address
Cuisinella stated that no banking data, postal addresses, passwords or identity documents were affected. The group said that, as soon as the incident was detected, its cybersecurity teams immediately ended the intrusion, launched in-depth investigations and took the necessary remediation measures. France's data-protection regulator, the CNIL, was notified as required by law. No precise count of affected individuals was published, though reporting described the impact as reaching thousands of customers.