E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Data Breach (2012)
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
lowVERIS
Disclosed
January 1, 2012
5199 days ago
Records
Undisclosed
Confirmed
Root Cause
Insider Threat
Industry
Manufacturing
Description
Two men in California are facing more than two decades in prison for stealing a recipe for making titanium dioxide (TiO2), a chemical used to whiten the cream in Oreo cookies, as well as numerous other uses in the manufacture of paper, plastic, and paint.