Saturday, April 2, 2011

Kroger Notifies Customers of a Data Breach Stemming from 3rd Party Email Vendor

Security Week's Mike Lennon is reporting a DATA BREACH for Grocery giant, The Kroger Co., it notifide customers that their names and email addresses were accessed at Epsilon, the thrid-party vendor Kroger uses to manage its customer email database.

Kroger stressed the only information that was obtained was name and email addresses of customers.  The company also urged customers NOT TO OPEN email from senders that they do not know and reminder customers that Kroger will NEVER ask for personal information such as a credit card or social security number in a email.

In a separate statement Epsilon on March 30 said a rigorous assessment is underway to determine that no other personal identifiable information associated with those name was at risk.

The breach follows several other simular including Honda, McDonald's and Walgreens.

The original article can be found here.

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