Cyber criminals cook up another data breach of 8 million Home Chef customers

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By William Knowles @c4i
Senior Editor
InfoSec News
May 21, 2020

Just 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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