Panera Bread's website‬ leaked 37 million customer records

On Monday, KrebsOnSecurity reported that Panera Bread exposed 37 million customers informtaion  which includes customers email, name, physical address, birthday and the last four digits of the customer’s credit card number which was directly accessible on their website. Panera Bread said, they are trying to fix the flaw on its website. Also, they denied that the data breach exposed customers personal details.

Brian Krebs, is an independent investigative reporter told that the researcher Dylan Houlihan identified and informed about the data leak in Auust, 2017. But Panera didn't do anything about it until Monday which means thousands of people must have accessed and grabed the data in those eight months. Panera Bread has more than 2,000 stores in the U.S.

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Panera Bread Chief Information Officer John Meister said, “Panera takes data security very seriously, and this issue is resolved. Following reports today of a potential problem on our website, we suspended the functionality to repair the issue. Our investigation is continuing, but there is no evidence of payment card information nor a large number of records being accessed or retrieved.”

Officer John also added, “Our investigation to date indicates that fewer than 10,000 consumers have been potentially affected by this issue, and we are working diligently to finalize our investigation and take the appropriate next steps.”