Security News > 2020 > November > Belden Discloses Data Breach Affecting Employee, Business Information
Specialty networking solutions provider Belden on Tuesday disclosed a data breach resulting in the theft of employee and business information.
The company said the incident involved "Unauthorized access and copying of some current and former employee data, as well as limited company information regarding some business partners."
"Safety is always paramount at Belden and we take threats to the privacy of personal and company information very seriously," stated Roel Vestjens, president and CEO of Belden.
Belden was the target of a sophisticated attack by a party outside the company that accessed servers that contained personal information of some current and former Belden employees, as well as limited company information regarding some of our business partners.
Personal information accessed and stolen may have contained such information as names, birthdates, government-issued identification numbers, bank account information of North American employees on Belden payroll, home addresses, email addresses and other general employment-related information.
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