US supermarket chain Wegmans notifies customers of data breach

guest · Jun 18, 2021

US supermarket chain Wegmans notifies customers of data breach
June 18, 2021
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...in-wegmans-notifies-customers-of-data-breach/

Wegmans Food Markets notified customers that some of their information was exposed after the company became aware that two of its databases were publicly accessible on the Internet because of a configuration issue.

The store chain was founded in 1916, and it is one of the largest private companies in the US, employing more than 50,000 people.
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No payment information exposed in the incident

"We recently became aware that, due to a previously undiscovered configuration issue, two of our cloud databases, which are used for business purposes and are meant to be kept internal to Wegmans, were inadvertently left open to potential outside access," the supermarket chain said in a press release.
However, according to Wegmans, the databases contained only salted password hashes were both hashed and salted, with the actual passwords not being stored in the unsecured databases.
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