- Still no confirmation if the data violation affected customers
- The chair data varies from person to person but generally includes sensitive PII
- Inc Ransom assumed responsibility for the attack
When cyber criminals hit Aold Delhaize in November 2024, the sensitive data on more than 2.2 million people stole the company.
Food Retail Behemoth confirmed the news in a new form recently submitted to Maine Attorney General’s Office, which did not specify whether among the stolen documents was information that belonged to its customers.
However, it said they may have included internal employment registers for both current and previous employees. The combination of stolen data varies from person to person, but generally includes the full names, postal addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, government-issued ID numbers, bank account numbers, health information and other employment-related information.
Customer problems
Aold Delhaize confirmed to suffer a cyberattack that forced it to close parts of his IT infrastructure.
As a result, some of its grocery stores and pharmacies, mainly those in the United States, could not serve their customers properly. The company runs a number of supermarket, convenience and online grocery brands throughout Europe and the US, including brands such as Food Lion, Stop & Shop and Giant.
It runs about 7,910 stores across Europe, the US and Indonesia and earns about 72 million customers weekly. At the end of April 2025, it confirmed that attackers stole sensitive files and said they were investigating the case.
The company never announced the name of attackers, but a group that calls themselves Inc Ransom, Ahold Delhaize added to his dark web press page in April 2025
At that time, it leaked a sample of documents that confirmed the authenticity of the violation and suggested that the negotiations for a ransom payment were underway.
In addition to announcing the theft, the company also said it would offer 24 months of free credit monitoring and identity theft -protection services to affected persons through Experian, which includes $ 1 million in identity theft insurance coverage.
Via Bleeping computer
