Supervalu Says Hackers May Have Stolen U.S. Customers’ Data

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-15/supervalu-says-hackers-may-have-stolen-u-s-shoppers-card-data.html?

By Robert Valpuesta
Bloomberg.com
Aug 15, 2014

Supervalu Inc. (SVU) said customers’ payment-card details may have been 
stolen as the U.S. grocery chain with more than 3,300 stores became the 
latest to fall victim to hackers.

The data may have been stolen from cards used in Supervalu stores from 
June 22 to July 17 following a network intrusion, the Eden Prairie, 
Minnesota-based company said in a statement today. Payment companies have 
been notified and law-enforcement agencies are investigating, it said.

Supervalu joins a lengthening list of companies whose systems have been 
compromised. Minneapolis-based retailer Target Corp. was victim of a 
breach last year that allowed hackers to gain access to payment data for 
40 million customers’ cards. Hackers in Russia have amassed 1.2 billion 
sets of looted user names and passwords, the largest known cache of stolen 
personal information, U.S. company Hold Security LLC said this month.

Cybercrime costs as much as $575 billion a year and remains a growth 
industry with attacks on banks, retailers and energy companies that will 
worsen, according to a June report by the Washington-based Center for 
Strategic and International Studies and sponsored by network security 
company McAfee Inc.

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