31 May 2014

Monsanto Data Breach

owned subsidiary Precision Planting LLC, which was acquired in 2012 for $210M and provides farm equipment and services to agricultural customers, discovered on March 27th unauthorized access to credit card, tax ID numbers, names, addresses, and employee W-2 tax forms of approximately 1,300 farming customers.  The FBI has been asked by Monsanto to help investigate the breach and a letter was posted on the Maryland attorney general’s website on May 14th to address Maryland’s 14 impacted customers. Precision Planting LLC is notifying all affected individuals and offering them a free year of credit monitoring and ID theft insurance. [AMAZONPRODUCTS asin="1118810112"]]]>

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