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Kroger reports data breach of some pharmacy, internal records
Company: No indication of fraud, misuse of personal information
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CINCINNATI â Kroger confirmed Friday that it was impacted by a data security breach affecting Accellion, Inc., a vendor it used for third-party secure file transfers. Kroger believes certain associate HR data, certain pharmacy records, and certain money services records have been affected, the company said on its website.
The company believes that fewer than 1% of its customers were impacted. The breach did not affect IT systems or any grocery store systems or data, Kroger said. No credit, debit card or digital wallet information were affected by the breach, nor were customer account passwords.
Accellion's disregard for data security led to a recent hack of its file transfer software, compromising the personal information of 1.6 million Washington state residents, according to a California class action filed Wednesday that appears to target the same software linked to a data breach at Jones Day.
Accellion Security Incident Impacts Kroger Family of Companies Associates and Limited Number of Customers
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CINCINNATI, Feb. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) Family of Companies today confirmed that it was impacted by the data security incident affecting Accellion, Inc. Accellion s services were used by Kroger, as well as many other companies, for third-party secure file transfers. Accellion notified Kroger that an unauthorized person gained access to certain Kroger files by exploiting a vulnerability in Accellion s file transfer service.
The incident was isolated to Accellion s services and did not affect the Kroger Family of Companies IT systems or any grocery store systems or data. No credit or debit card information or customer account passwords were affected by this incident. After being informed of the incident s effect on January 23, 2021, Kroger discontinued the use of Accellion s services, reporte
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Madalyn Brown sued cloud file-sharing company Accellion, Inc. after it reportedly experienced a breach that exposed information such as birthdates, addresses, and social security numbers of one of the Washington State Auditorâs Office (SAO) resident databases. Wednesdayâs class action complaint alleged that Accellion knew its file transfer appliance (FTA) was ânearing end-of-life,â but continued to employ it nonetheless, allowing hackers to exploit a vulnerability therein.
The complaint explained that Accellion is a Palo Alto, California-based software company that specializes in cloud-based file sharing. Accellion allegedly developed, marketed, and sold its FTA for file-sharing convenience and to circumvent limits imposed on the size of email attachments.