Hasbro confirms data breach affected its employees

Source: Tech Insider Hasbro has confirmed that attackers accessed the personal and financial information of an undisclosed number of employees, months after the toy giant first disclosed a network intrusion to federal regulators.

The Rhode Island-based maker of Monopoly, Transformers, and Dungeons & Dragons, sent data breach notification letters to affected employees last week, according to BleepingComputer.

The letters confirm that attackers gained access to a compromised employee account and, through it, personal and financial information tied to Hasbro staff. The company has not disclosed the total number of employees affected company-wide, nor has it said exactly when the exposure was detected relative to the March network intrusion.

A report from TechCrunch Apr. 1 reported that Hasbro, which also owns Peppa Pig and Nerf, had taken systems offline as a precaution and warned that a full recovery could take “several weeks.” Full Story