Chowbus, an Asian food delivery service that operates in the United States, Australia, and Canada has been breached. As a result of this breach, Chowbus customers received mysterious emails from an email address registered with the company. Inside was a link to files that contained details of restaurants and possibly information about hundreds of thousands of customers. Information accessed may include names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. The company has confirmed the breach and explained to customers that some user data was illegally accessed and made available online. After becoming aware of this incident, the company disabled links from the original email and secured its systems.

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