"Panda Restaurants Discloses Data Breach After Corporate Systems Hack"

Panda Restaurant Group, the parent company of Panda Express, Panda Inn, and Hibachi-San, recently disclosed a data breach after attackers compromised its corporate systems in March and stole the personal information of an undisclosed number of individuals. Panda Express is the largest Chinese fast food chain in the United States, with over $3 billion in sales and 47,000 associates working in 2,300 branches. The company says it discovered the data breach on March 10, 2024, which affected some of its corporate systems but left in-store systems, operations, and guest experience unaffected. After a thorough investigation, the company determined that the unauthorized actor accessed certain information maintained on its corporate systems between March 7-11, 2024. According to information filed with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, information exposed in the attack includes affected peoples' names or other personal identifiers and their driver's license numbers or non-driver identification card numbers. Panda has yet to disclose the total number of individuals whose personal information was accessed or stolen in the incident and whether they are customers, employees, or both.

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