California Department of Food and Agriculture reports data breach
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The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is reporting a security breach affecting the Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services external website, leading to the unintended disclosure of personal and sensitive information to unauthorized external entities.
The exposed data encompasses a range of personally identifiable information of accounts associated with the site, including:
- names,
- addresses,
- phone numbers,
- email addresses.
- usernames
- passwords
No details are disclosed about the attack, nor the number of individuals impacted.
In response to this security lapse, the CDFA has issued recommendations for affected individuals to promptly change their passwords to mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to their accounts. CDFA has started an outreach to potentially impacted individuals.
