Cyberattack at CA Prune Growers

January 9, 2026

INCIDENT

Yuba City, California-based Sunsweet Growers Inc. suffered a cyberattack this past December and is now letting current and former employees know they fell victim to threat actors making off with personally identifiable information.
“On December 11, 2024, Sunsweet became aware that certain computer network systems were inaccessible,” the company said in a notice. “We quickly took steps to secure our systems and launched an investigation with the assistance of third-party computer specialists to confirm the full nature and scope of the activity and to restore functionality to the affected systems.
The investigation found an unauthorized actor gained access to certain Sunsweet systems.

Incident Date

December 11, 2024

Estimated Cost

Unknown at this time

Type of Malware

No Malware identified

Threat Source

No threat source identified