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title: "FOX Business: Panera Bread Data Breach Exposes Customer Records"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/bd36cd0f-3b7b-4619-8256-0402929ab91e
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/fox-business-panera-bread-data-breach-exposes-customer-records-2706169
category: "Bakery & breakfast"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Bakery & breakfast"
published: 2018-04-03T16:11:26.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T04:09:28.346Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/b40d5a14313f9e34125f2cbd67627cbb7176.jpg
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# FOX Business: Panera Bread Data Breach Exposes Customer Records

**TL;DR:** Panera Bread has released a statement regarding a security flaw on their website that leaked customer information online, affecting fewer than 10,000 consumers according to the company, but potentially over 7 million customers according to an independent investigation. The breach has been resolved, with Panera taking data security seriously and suspending website functionality to repair the issue.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2018-04-03. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/fox-business-panera-bread-data-breach-exposes-customer-records-2706169).*

## Story

Panera Bread has released a statement to FOX Business regarding a security flaw on their website that leaked vital customer information online. The statement claims that the breach has been resolved and affected fewer than 10,000 consumers, but an independent investigation conducted by “Krebs on Security” blog author Brian Krebs indicates more than 7 million customers may have been affected.

Though Panera’s statement did not detail what kind of data was exposed, Krebs’s report shows that names, email and physical addresses, birthdays and the last four digits of customer credit cards numbers were accessible. According to Krebs, the security flaw and resulting leak were first identified in August, eight months before the site was taken offline.

In the statement, Panera Bread Chief Information Officer John Meister said, “Panera takes data security very seriously, and this issue is resolved. Following reports today of a potential problem on our website, we suspended the functionality to repair the issue. Our investigation is continuing, but there is no evidence of payment card information nor a large number of records being accessed or retrieved.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- Panera Bread (company)
- Fox Business (company)
- data breach (topic)
- investigation (topic)
- customer records (topic)
- security flaw (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/fox-business-panera-bread-data-breach-exposes-customer-records-2706169). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/bd36cd0f-3b7b-4619-8256-0402929ab91e).