Home Chef Hacked – Hackers Selling 8M User Records on a Dark Web Marketplace

Home Chef, a US-based meal kit delivery service suffers a data breach, hackers stolen more than 8 million customer records.

How are when the hack attack took place is unknown, the company is investigating the situation now.

Home Chef Hacked – What Data Impacted?

The hack impacts the following customer information

• Email address, name, and phone number
• Encrypted passwords
• The last four digits of credit card numbers
• Other account information such as frequency of deliveries and mailing address may also have been compromised

Home Chef is to notice the impacted customers, also the company confirms all the customers are not impacted.

If your account impacted in the breach then you will be getting notified, else the company will not alert you.

The protection of customer data is a top priority for Home Chef, and we work hard to safeguard our customers’ information.

Also, the company confirms that they do not store complete credit or debit card information.

We are taking action to investigate this situation and to strengthen our information security defenses to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future, reads FAQ published by the company.

Home Chef recommended you to reset the passwords by visiting their website, if you reuse the password then it is recommended to change with all the portals.

Learned that databases sold by Shiny Hunters contain 8 million user records for Home Chef.

Shiny Hunters started selling hacked databases that contain over 73.2 Million user records of 11 different companies over the dark web.

It all starts with the Tokopedia dump shared last week contains more than 90 million user records, followed by Unacademy dump and the hack of the Microsoft’s GitHub account.

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