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Monsanto Confirms Security Breach (updated)

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Dissent

Jacob Bunge and Tony Dreibus report:

Monsanto Co. confirmed Thursday that a security breach in one of the seed company’s servers left exposed some customer credit-card information and Monsanto employee data.

The breach occurred in late March, affecting about 1,300 farmers who are customers of Monsanto’s Precision Planting division, which makes specialized seed-planting equipment, according to a spokeswoman. One or more external parties hacked into the server, she said, adding that a company investigation suggests they weren’t seeking to take customer data.

Read more on WSJ.

Update, 6/2:  Marshall Honorof reports that  the 1,300 potentially compromised accounts  included “names, addresses and — much worse — tax IDs, Social Security numbers and financial information.”

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