Comparison Overview

Sports Direct

VS

Specsavers

Sports Direct

Unit A Brook Park, Shirebrook, NG20, GB
Last Update: 2026-01-18

Founded in 1982, Sports Direct International plc is today the UK’s largest sporting goods retailer by revenue, and operates a diversified portfolio of sports, fitness, fashion and lifestyle fascias and brands. The Group’s strategy is to invest in our people and our key third party brand partners in order to elevate our retail proposition to attain new levels of excellence across our multi-brand, multi-channel offering to customers. We aspire to be a leading sports and lifestyle retailer internationally and to deliver sustainable growth for our shareholders in the medium to long term by offering our customers an unrivalled range of high quality leading brands. The Group provides a full multi-channel retail approach across its fascias in the UK, and increasingly across its fascias in continental Europe and elsewhere. The Group also wholesales and licenses its Group Brands to partners in the UK, continental Europe, the Americas, and the Far East.

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 6,645
Subsidiaries: 8
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
1
Attack type number
1

Specsavers

La Villiaize, St Andrews, Global, GB, GY6 8YP
Last Update: 2026-01-20
Between 750 and 799

Specsavers began 40 years ago with the vision of two optometrists, Doug and Mary Perkins, who set out to provide best-value eyecare to everybody. Their passion for optometry has led Specsavers to become the largest privately-owned optical group in the world, delivering high-quality, affordable optical and hearing care in 12 countries. And it continues to shape the lives and experience of around 41,000 colleagues who are developing their careers with us across the globe.

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 27,385
Subsidiaries: 6
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
1

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Sports Direct
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
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Specsavers
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
Compliance Summary
Sports Direct
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Specsavers
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Sports Direct in 2026.

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Specsavers in 2026.

Incident History — Sports Direct (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Sports Direct cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — Specsavers (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Specsavers cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Sports Direct
Incidents

Date Detected: 02/2017
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Unpatched DNN platform vulnerabilities
Blog: Blog
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Specsavers
Incidents

Date Detected: 06/2019
Type:Data Leak
Attack Vector: Physical Theft
Blog: Blog

FAQ

Sports Direct company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to Specsavers company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Sports Direct and Specsavers have experienced a similar number of publicly disclosed cyber incidents.

In the current year, Specsavers company and Sports Direct company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Neither Specsavers company nor Sports Direct company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Sports Direct company has disclosed at least one data breach, while the other Specsavers company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither Specsavers company nor Sports Direct company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither Sports Direct company nor Specsavers company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Sports Direct nor Specsavers holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Sports Direct company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Specsavers company.

Specsavers company employs more people globally than Sports Direct company, reflecting its scale as a Retail.

Neither Sports Direct nor Specsavers holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Sports Direct nor Specsavers holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Sports Direct nor Specsavers holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Sports Direct nor Specsavers holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Sports Direct nor Specsavers holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Sports Direct nor Specsavers holds GDPR certification.

Latest Global CVEs (Not Company-Specific)

Description

Typemill is a flat-file, Markdown-based CMS designed for informational documentation websites. A reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) exists in the login error view template `login.twig` of versions 2.19.1 and below. The `username` value can be echoed back without proper contextual encoding when authentication fails. An attacker can execute script in the login page context. This issue has been fixed in version 2.19.2.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 5.4
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Description

A DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the DomainCheckerApp class within domain/script.js of Sourcecodester Domain Availability Checker v1.0. The vulnerability occurs because the application improperly handles user-supplied data in the createResultElement method by using the unsafe innerHTML property to render domain search results.

Description

A Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability exists in Sourcecodester Modern Image Gallery App v1.0 within the gallery/upload.php component. The application fails to properly validate uploaded file contents. Additionally, the application preserves the user-supplied file extension during the save process. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to upload arbitrary PHP code by spoofing the MIME type as an image, leading to full system compromise.

Description

A UNIX symbolic link following issue in the jailer component in Firecracker version v1.13.1 and earlier and 1.14.0 on Linux may allow a local host user with write access to the pre-created jailer directories to overwrite arbitrary host files via a symlink attack during the initialization copy at jailer startup, if the jailer is executed with root privileges. To mitigate this issue, users should upgrade to version v1.13.2 or 1.14.1 or above.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 6.0
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
cvss4
Base: 6.0
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Description

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the /srvs/membersrv/getCashiers endpoint of the Aptsys gemscms backend platform thru 2025-05-28. This unauthenticated endpoint returns a list of cashier accounts, including names, email addresses, usernames, and passwords hashed using MD5. As MD5 is a broken cryptographic function, the hashes can be easily reversed using public tools, exposing user credentials in plaintext. This allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized logins and potentially gain access to sensitive POS operations or backend functions.