Wegmans warns customers that their personal data may have been compromised after the company became aware of the configuration issue in its databases.
- Wegmans became aware that two cloud databases were publicly accessible on the internet because of a configuration issue.
- The investigation found that the customer’s personal information may have been compromised.
- The company did not report how many people were impacted.
Wegmans warns customers that their personal data may have been compromised after the company became aware of the configuration issue in its databases.
The issue was notified to Wegmans by a third-party security researcher, and the company then verified the issue beginning on or about April 19, 2021.
The company employed an outside forensics firm to investigate the incident, determine its scope, and correct it.
“We recently became aware that, due to a previously undiscovered configurationissue, two of our cloud databases, which are used for business purposes and are meant to be kept internal to Wegmans, were inadvertently left open to potentialoutside access. Certain customer information, outlined below, was contained in these databases, ” the supermarket chain reported in a press release.
Customer informationexposed in the data breach included names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, Shoppers Club numbers, and Wegmans.com account e-mail addresses and passwords.
According to the company, the databases that contained only salted password hashes were both hashed and salted, with the original passwords not being stored in the unsecured databases.
No credit card, banking or other payment data was affected. Social security numbers, which Wegmans does not collect from customers, we're also not impacted. The firm recommends changing your Wegmans.com password and any other account with the same password.
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