2023-06-22 00:32:05
Mondelez Global LLC, the parent company of Oreo cookies and other major food products, issued a notification stating that the maker of Oreo cookies has been hacked and the company has been forced to deal with a data breach that includes a series of personal data of different people. Mondelez International is a Fortune 500 company currently ranked 108th. In the year 2021, they reported revenue of $28.72 billion annually. They do business in more than 150 countries and have more than 79,000 employees in locations around the world.
Bryan Cave, who is a legal support firm for Mondelez, reported that the illegal access to the systems was discovered between February 27, 2023 and March 1, 2023. This occurred within that time frame. Investigations are now underway and the relevant authorities have been notified of the situation. It should be noted that the criminals did not enter the Mondelez computer network; rather, they hacked into Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP’s network. In addition, since Bryan Cave was one of Mondelez’s legal service providers, the firm had access to and was able to make copies of sensitive personal information about current and former Mondelez employees.
“Please note that this incident did not occur or affect Mondelez’s systems or networks in any way,” the multinational snack company said in the security breach letter it sent to 51,110 people on Friday.
The discovery of a second instance of unauthorized access to systems was made on March 24, 2023, 23 days before the discovery of the first breach.
The data that was taken during these breaches is now the subject of an investigation and its loss has yet to be verified.
Notifications of the incident are already being distributed to workers who may have been affected, and the firm is working to take appropriate action.
Information about employees includes the following:
Name, including last name, SSN, address, date of birth, marital status, and gender, as well as employee identification number and Mondelez Retirement plan
As part of the ongoing investigation into this incident, Bryan Cave and Mondelez are collaborating with members of law enforcement and cybersecurity investigators. They also stated that they have implemented a number of security precautions to prevent such incidents from happening in the future. Mondelez is providing affected consumers with free access to Experian Identity Works Credit Plus 1B for a period of two years as a way to make amends for the data breach that occurred.
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