Malware Cited as the Cause of Massive Supermarket Data Breach
A massive data breach at an East coast supermarket chain compromised up to 4.2 million credit and debit cards earlier in March, leading to 1,800 cases of fraud arising as far away as Mexico, Italy and Bulgaria. Recently, the Hannaford Bros. grocery chain announced the cause of that breach: unauthorized software secretly installed on servers that intercepted data from customers as they paid with plastic at checkout counters.
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