US grocery and pharmacy chain’s customer data impacted in vendor hack


Kroger Co says it was among the multiple victims of a data breach involving a third-party vendor’s file-transfer service and is notifying potentially impacted customers, offering them free credit monitoring. The Cincinnati-based grocery and pharmacy chain said in a statement on Feb 19, 2021, that it believes less than 1% of its customers were affected, specifically some using its Health and Money Services, as well as some current and former employees because a number of personnel records were apparently viewed. — AP

BOSTON: Kroger Co says personal data, including Social Security numbers of some of its US pharmacy and clinic customers, may have been stolen in the hack of a third-party vendor’s file-transfer service.

The Cincinnati-based grocery and pharmacy chain said in a statement Friday that it believes less than 1% of its customers were affected – specifically some using its Health and Money Services – as well as some current and former employees because a number of personnel records were apparently viewed.

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