Kitchen Appliance Manufacturer Vorwerk Suffers Data Breach.

Wuppertal-based kitchen appliance manufacturer Vorwerk suffered data breach. For many customers, a Vorwerk Thermomix is ​​only complete with online access, where they can download thousands of recipes. Unknown perpetrators accessed user data from Vorwerk's recipe forum and copied users' personal data. According to the news magazine "Spiegel," the data was offered on a darknet forum. The database reportedly contains information from 3.3 million users. Vorwerk said full names, addresses, birthdays, phone numbers, and email addresses were accessed.

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IT Privacy