Breaches and incidents
Panera Bread: 5.1 million customer emails published after extortion
HIBP loaded 5.1M unique emails from a 14M-record dataset (names, phone numbers, physical addresses).
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Reported by a reputable outlet, citing the company
What happened
- HIBP loaded 5.1M unique emails from a 14M-record dataset (names, phone numbers, physical addresses). Panera confirmed “the data involved is contact information” and said authorities were notified.
- Root cause: not disclosed by Panera.
- Press and trackers attribute it to ShinyHunters (claim; Panera has not named an attacker).
- Data published after a failed extortion.