Hackread.com reports on Monsanto has been hacked!

1. 23207 Townline Road
Tremont, IL 61568
May 14, 2014
Office of the Attorney General
Attn: Security Breach Notification
200 St. Paul Place
Baltimore, MD 21202
Dear Sir or Madam:
I am writing to let you know about a data security incident that may have impacted the personal information of
14 residents in your state.
Precision Planting LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Monsanto, provides farm equipment and services to
agricultural customers. To provide these services, we collect business-related information about the companies
we serve along with some personal information pertaining to individual business owners, employees and
contractors.
On March 27 we discovered unauthorized access to our systems had occurred by an outside party. Files on the
affected servers contained personal information, including customer names, addresses, tax identification
numbers (which in some cases could be Social Security Numbers), and (in some cases) financial account
information. Additionally, some HR data was stored on the servers, including some W2 tax forms that contained
employee name, address, and Social Security numbers and (for a small number of employees) driver’s license
numbers.
We believe this unauthorized access was not an attempt to steal customer information; however, it is possible
that files containing personal information may have been accessed and therefore we are making this
notification.
The incident has been contained and we have partnered with a leading forensics firm to understand and
remediate this issue. In addition, we have asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation for assistance.
We are not aware of any misuse of any information from this incident, but we are notifying all of the affected
individuals and providing them with free one-year membership of credit monitoring and identity theft insurance.
Please find attached a copy of the notification letters for the affected individuals. We expect this mailing to
occur shortly. We would be happy to answer any questions that you may have.
You may contact me directly at 314-694-8998.
Very truly yours,
Reuben Shelton
Senior Counsel