Hackers Infiltrate Grocery Giant, Steal ‘Huge Amounts’ of Customer and Employee Data in Extortion Scheme: Report

Hackers Infiltrate Grocery Giant, Steal ‘Huge Amounts’ of Customer and Employee Data in Extortion Scheme: Report


A large grocery chain has been exploited by hackers who are now telling the media that the attack is much more serious than what is being admitted.

Co-op Food, one of the largest grocery chains in the UK employing approximately 70,000 people, disclosed last month that it had suffered a cyber-attack from “highly sophisticated” criminals.

Co-op CEO Shirine Khoury-Haq said that “the cyber criminals were able to access a limited amount of member data.”

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However, the hackers have since reached out to the BBC and reportedly gave proof that they had breached the company’s IT networks and “stolen huge amounts of customer and employee data.”

Anonymous hackers operating under the name “DragonForce” reportedly showed BBC screenshots from a Microsoft Teams chat where the group told

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