IL Baking Manufacturer, Alpha Baking, Hit in Cyberattack

December 30, 2025

INCIDENT

Chicago, Illinois-based Alpha Baking Co. suffered a cyberattack in January and is now letting victims know their personally identifiable information ended up stolen in the hack.
While the company said it has no evidence the stolen data is undergoing any kind of abuse at the moment, the company is issuing notices to victims.
“On January 23, 2025, we identified unusual activity on our computer network,” the company said in a letter sent out to victims of the attack. “We immediately took steps to investigate. A forensic investigation conducted by external experts determined that an unauthorized third party obtained certain files stored on our network.”

Incident Date

January 23, 2025

Estimated Cost

Unknown at this time

Type of Malware

No Malware identified

Threat Source

No threat source identified