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BOSTON (AP) – Kroger Co. says it was one of the multiple victims of a data breach involving a third-party file transfer service and notifies customers who may be affected, offering them free credit monitoring.
The Cincinnati-based grocery and pharmacy chain said in a statement Friday that it believes less than 1% of its customers are affected – especially some who use its health and money services – as well as some current and former employees because a number of staff records were apparently viewed.
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Kroger said the breach did not affect the IT systems or grocery store systems or data from Kroger stores, and there is no indication that fraud with access to personal data occurred.
The company, which has 2,750 grocery stores and 2,200 pharmacies nationwide, did not immediately respond to questions, including how many customers were affected.
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Kroger said it was among the victims of the hack of a file transfer product called FTA, developed by Accellion, a California company, and that it was notified on January 23 of the incident when using Accellion’s services has been discontinued. Companies use the file transfer product to share large amounts of data and solid email attachments.
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Accellion has more than 3,000 customers worldwide. It is said that the product in question was twenty years old and nearing the end of its life. The company said on February 1 that it had patched all known vulnerabilities in the FTA.
Other Accellion clients affected by the hack include the University of Colorado, the state of Washington, the financial regulator of Australia, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the leading US law firm Jones Day.
For the Washington state auditor, the cap was particularly serious. Files were exposed to 1.6 million claims obtained last year in the investigation into massive unemployment fraud.
In the case of Jones Day, cybercriminals who wanted to blackmail the law firm dumped an estimated 85 gigabytes of data online that they allegedly stole.
Former President Donald Trump is among Jones Day clients, but the criminals emailed The Associated Press that none of the information relates to him.