Whole Foods Market—acquired past times Amazon for $13.7 billion inward belatedly August—disclosed Th that hackers were able to gain unauthorized access to credit carte du jour information for its customers who made purchases at certainly venues similar taprooms as well as sum table-service restaurants located inside some stores.
Whole Foods Market has some 500 stores inward the United States, United Kingdom, as well as Canada.
The companionship did non discover details almost the targeted locations or the sum number of customers affected past times the breach, exactly it did cite that hackers targeted some of its point-of-sale (POS) terminals inward an endeavour to pocket client data, including credit details.
The companionship too said people who exclusively shopped for groceries at Whole Foods were non affected, neither the hackers were able to access Amazon transactions inward the safety breach.
Instead, exclusively certainly venues such every bit taprooms as well as table-service restaurants located inside its stores—which purpose a split POS system—were impacted.
Whole Foods Market has hired a cybersecurity trouble solid to aid it investigate the credit carte du jour breach as well as contacted police enforcement government of this incident.
"When Whole Foods Market learned of this, the companionship launched an investigation, obtained the aid of a leading cybersecurity forensics firm, contacted police enforcement, as well as is taking appropriate measures to address the issue," Whole Foods said inward a disputation on its website.The companionship is too encouraging its customers to closely monitor their credit carte du jour statements as well as "report whatsoever unauthorized charges to the issuing bank."
According to Whole Foods Market, none of the affected systems beingness investigated are, inward whatsoever way, connected to Amazon.com systems.
Whole Foods Market has perish the latest of the victim of the high-profile cyber attack. Earlier this month, Global taxation as well as auditing trouble solid Deloitte suffered a cyber attack that resulted inward the theft of individual emails as well as documents of some of its clients.
Also concluding week, the U.S. Securities as well as Exchange Commission (SEC) too disclosed that unknown hackers managed to hack its fiscal document filing organisation as well as illegally profited from the stolen information.
Last month, credit rating means Equifax publicly disclosed a breach of its systems that exposed personal details, including names, addresses, birthdays as well as Social Security numbers, of potentially 143 ane chiliad m US customers.
