Major US grocery chains hit by cybersecurity incident

You pull out your phone to check your grocery store's digital coupons or place an order for dinner.

Suddenly, the app won't open.

The website is unavailable, and the groceries you were counting on for tonight may never arrive.

For anyone who depends on online grocery shopping, that's a frustrating problem.

That's the situation shoppers encountered this week at several major U.S. supermarket chains.

A cybersecurity incident at grocery giant Ahold Delhaize forced the company to take some systems offline.

The disruption affected Stop & Shop, Food Lion, Hannaford and the Giant supermarket chains.

The company says its physical stores have remained open, although customers have experienced interruptions to online services.

There's another reason this story deserves attention.

The same company suffered a major data breach in 2024 that exposed personal information belonging to more than 2.2 million people.

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