Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2023-12-01 00:00:00
Affected organization: The Hershey Company
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Accommodation and Food Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The Hershey Company, the American manufacturer of popular sweets such as Kit Kat and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, tells regulators that more than 2,200 people were potentially affected by a data breach after hackers gained access to some of the company's email accounts.