Home Chef Data Breach

What happened?

In early 2020, the food delivery service Home Chef suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold online. The breach exposed the personal information of almost 9 million customers including names, IP addresses, post codes, the last 4 digits of credit card numbers and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com .

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is February 10, 2020. The record was added to the catalogue on November 13, 2020 and last updated there on November 13, 2020.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Email addresses
• Geographic locations
• IP addresses
• Names
• Partial credit card data
• Passwords
• Phone numbers

These are incident-level categories. The record does not prove that every category was exposed for every affected person.

Who may be affected?

This record may be relevant to people who had an account or other relationship with Home Chef or used homechef.com around February 10, 2020. A catalogue entry does not establish that every customer was affected or that every listed data category applied to each person. Compare the record with an official notice addressed to you.

What should you do?

Choose actions that match the information involved. If you find signs that someone is using your identity, the Federal Trade Commission provides a personal recovery plan at IdentityTheft.gov.