Panera Bread data breach exposes 5.1 million accounts
Data from 5.1 million Panera Bread accounts was leaked. ShinyHunters initially claimed to have obtained 14 million customer records and posted them on the dark web, but the scale was later put at 5.1 million accounts. The attack was linked to a compromise of Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Panera Bread
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Data from 5.1 million accounts
- Cause / method
- Compromise of Microsoft Entra single sign-on
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- ShinyHunters claimed to have posted 14 million Panera Bread customer records on the dark web.
- A lawsuit relating to the Panera Bread data breach was reported.
- The scale was put at 5.1 million accounts rather than 14 million customers.
- It emerged that the breach was linked to a compromise of Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
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Panera Bread ransomware attack causes IT outage and data leak
Impact: Week-long IT outage and data leak
Panera Bread was hit by a ransomware attack in March 2024, and its IT outage lasted a week. It was suggested that the company may have paid a ransom after the attack. Panera Bread agreed to a $2.5 million settlement in a class action over the data leak.
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