Confirmed: Barnes & Noble hacked, systems taken offline for days, miscreants may have swiped personal info

Nook, line and sinker: Servers restored from backups, punters unable to download purchased e-books

Updated Barnes and Noble tonight confirmed it was hacked, and that its customers' personal information may have been accessed by the intruders. The cyber-break-in forced the bookseller to take its systems offline this week to clean up the mess. See our update at the end of this piece. Our original report follows....