The American manufacturer of popular sweets such as Kit Kat and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups told regulators that more than 2,200 people were potentially affected by a data breach after hackers gained access to some of the company's email accounts.
The Hershey Company submitted a security notification to the Maine Attorney General's office on Friday about a breach that occurred at the beginning of September and was promptly detected.
Hershey is now investigating the attack with security researchers and said it took steps to prevent similar events in the future, including forced password changes.
This is not the first time Hershey has been targeted by hackers.
In 2011, cybercriminals penetrated its server and altered one of the baking recipes posted on the company's recipe website.
This server also stored consumer registration information, including email addresses, birthdates, and street addresses.
In June of this year, Mondelez - the American manufacturer of Oreo cookies and Milka chocolate - also had some of its employees' data compromised by hackers following a breach at the law firm Bryan Cave, which provides legal services to the firm.
Daryna Antoniuk is a freelance reporter for Recorded Future News based in Ukraine.
She writes about cybersecurity startups, cyberattacks in Eastern Europe and the state of the cyberwar between Ukraine and Russia.
She previously was a tech reporter for Forbes Ukraine.
Her work has also been published at Sifted, The Kyiv Independent and The Kyiv Post.
This Cyber News was published on therecord.media. Publication date: Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:05:10 +0000