Bumble, Match, Panera Bread and CrunchBase hit by cyberattacks, Bloomberg News reports


The Bumble Inc. (BMBL) app is shown on an Apple iPhone in this photo illustration as the dating app operator made its debut IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange February 11, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake/Illustration

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Bumble, ‌Match Group, and CrunchBase were ‌hit by cyberattacks, Bloomberg News reported ‌on Wednesday, citing spokespersons of the impacted companies.

Panera Bread also confirmed that an incident occurred and ‍has alerted authorities. "The data ‍involved is contact ‌information," it said in an emailed statement ‍to Reuters.

Bumble ​said the intruders did not get into the member ⁠database, accounts, direct messages, or profiles, ‌while Tinder parent Match's said an incident affected ⁠a limited ‍amount of user data, but there was no indication that user log-in credentials, ‍financial information, or private communications ‌were accessed, according to the Bloomberg report.

A spokesperson for the data provider website CrunchBase said documents on its corporate network had been affected, but that it had contained the incident, the report ‌added.

Match, Bumble, and CrunchBase did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment outside regular ​business hours.

(Reporting by Fabiola Arámburo in Mexico City; Editing by Alan Barona and Rashmi Aich)

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