Home Chef food delivery service confirms breach, two weeks after stolen data went for sale
Customers who used the Home Chef delivery service won’t be the first to know their data was stolen and put up for sale. Nearly two weeks after security researchers said they found usernames and passwords belonging to Home Chef users for sale, the Chicago-based company said a security incident has resulted in the compromise of information about an undisclosed number of its customers. The announcement confirms prior claims from a hacking group, known only at Shiny Hunters, which alleged it had breached a number of seemingly random companies, then posted the stolen data for sale on forums frequented by cybercriminals. “We recently learned of a data security incident impacting select customer information, including names and emails, as well as limited customer account information and encrypted passwords,” the company said in a statement. “We are taking action to investigate this situation and to strengthen our information security defenses to prevent similar incidents […]
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