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Cyber criminals cook up another data breach of 8 million Home Chef customers
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 05:43:14 +0000 (UTC)
https://www.infosecnews.org/home-chef-data-breach/ By William Knowles @c4i Senior Editor InfoSec News May 21, 2020Just as Chicago can’t go a whole week without a gang-related shooting, there’s another data breach in the news, sadly this data breach happened down the road from InfoSec News’ office in Chicago Illinois.
In a security alert posted on Home Chef’s website on Wednesday, May 20th, the Chicago-based, Kroger owned meal company had learned of a data breach and the following was stolen, email address, name and phone number, encrypted passwords, The last four digits of credit card numbers and other account information such as frequency of deliveries and mailing address may also have been compromised in the data breach.
Home Chef reports that it does not store complete credit or debit card information and “Protection of customer data is a top priority for Home Chef, and we work hard to safeguard our customers’ information”
The Home Chef data breach statement continues “We are taking action to investigate this situation and to strengthen our information security defenses to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future.”
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