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Canadian retail giant Loblaw notifies customers of data breach
Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw), the largest food and pharmacy retailer in Canada, announced that hackers breached a portion of its IT network and accessed basic customer information. The retailer has a nationwide network of 2,500 stores (franchise supermarkets, pharmacies, banking kiosks, and apparel shops) and plans to expand with 70 new ones this year as part of […]
Co-op says it lost $107 million after Scattered Spider attack
The Co-operative Group in the U.K. released its interim financial results report for the first half of 2025 with a massive loss in operating profit of £80 million ($107 million) due to the cyberattack it suffered last April. The impact is analyzed into two categories, namely £20 million in one-off incremental costs and £60 million […]
Auchan retailer data breach impacts hundreds of thousands of customers
French retailer Auchan is informing that some sensitive data associated with loyalty accounts of several hundred thousand of its customers was exposed in a cyberattack. The company is sending data breach notifications to customers affected by the incident. “We are writing to inform you that Auchan has been the victim of a cyberattack. This attack […]
Retail giant Ahold Delhaize says data breach affects 2.2 million people
Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail chains, is notifying over 2.2 million individuals that their personal, financial, and health information was stolen in a November ransomware attack that impacted its U.S. systems. The multinational retailer and wholesale company operates over 9,400 local stores across Europe, the United States, and Indonesia, employing more […]
Co-op confirms data theft after DragonForce ransomware claims attack
The Co-op cyberattack is far worse than initially reported, with the company now confirming that data was stolen for a significant number of current and past customers. “As a result of ongoing forensic investigations, we now know that the hackers were able to access and extract data from one of our systems,” Co-op told GeekFeed. […]
UK retailer Co-op shuts down some IT systems after hack attempt
British supermarket chain Co-op shut down parts of its IT systems after detecting an attempted intrusion into its network, disrupting back office and call center services. While A Co-op spokesperson confirmed the hacking attempts to GeekFeed, they have not shared whether these attempts were successful. “We have recently experienced attempts to gain unauthorized access to some […]