READING, Pa. – If you try to order some groceries through the Giant grocery store app or website, you’re met with a screen announcing both are currently unavailable.That’s due to what their parent company is calling a “cybersecurity incident.” ”You have to be very careful who you give your data to,” said Eric Robuck, a cybersecurity professor at Alvernia University. Robuck says grocery store websites can be ideal targets for hackers.
Ahold Delhaize said it experienced a security issue within its network.
“A grocery store is a treasure trove of data,” Robuck said. “So if they can get into the data and take the data, that means they can sell it on the dark web.”Giant isn’t the only recent target.Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that cyberattacks also disrupted European supermarket chains, causing refrigeration systems to overheat at hundreds of stores in France.”The grocery chains that have been affected take down their website and their technology to limit access to make sure they try to stop it,” Robuck said.Once the hackers are inside, he said, they can steal data from every single customer to sell to buyers on the dark web.”I can sell your credit card information; I can sell your Social Security number… I can sell the things that they collect. I can go on the dark web and buy a credit card for a dollar,” Robuck said.
Cyberattacks have disrupted European supermarket chains, causing refrigeration systems to overheat at hundreds of stores in France. This forced a major grocer to shut down websites serving customers in Europe and the United States. French Finance Minister Roland Lescure told Parliament on Tuesday that about 700 of the country’s 10,000 supermarkets were affected. The Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that its cybercrime unit was investigating the attack. Danish technology company Danfoss, which supplied the refrigeration management software, said Monday that most affected systems were older products. Danfoss said it was working with affected customers to limit the damage.
Robuck says he believes cyberattacks will only become more and more common”We’ve gone from people sitting on a keyboard and trying to get into to people’s account… to [artificial intelligence] doing it without us having to do anything,” Robuck said.He says the best way to stay safe is to be careful with what information you share online, even on trusted sites.”You have to be very, very careful who, who you talk to on the phone and what emails you click on,” Robuck said. Giant has not yet announced when its systems are expected to come back online.
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