More Rewards customer data accessed following server breach
The Canadian grocery loyalty program shut down a compromised server after discovering unauthorized access to customer personal information.
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CTV News reported that Canadian loyalty program More Rewards suffered a cybersecurity breach that exposed customer personal information. The company discovered unusual activity on one of its servers on Tuesday and immediately shut the system down to begin an investigation. [1]
More Rewards confirmed on Friday that an unauthorized party accessed personal information stored on its database, according to CTV News. The compromised data includes customer names, as well as physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and dates of birth if customers had provided them. [1]
More Rewards is the rewards program for Save-On-Foods and other grocery stores owned by the Jim Pattison Group. The Pattison Food Group operates supermarket banners from its headquarters in Langley, British Columbia. [1][2]
The incident follows recent cybersecurity breaches at other major consumer companies. As FTMQ Security reported earlier, online fashion retailer ASOS and mobile provider Trump Mobile both disclosed customer data leaks earlier this month. [3][4]
In short
- More Rewards discovered unusual server activity on Tuesday and shut down the affected system.
- Unauthorized parties accessed customer names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and birth dates.
- More Rewards is operated for Save-On-Foods and other Jim Pattison Group grocery stores.
Sources
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- [1]More Rewards customers’ data accessed in a cybersecurity breachCTV News, 2h ago (the report this story comes from)
Background
- [2]Pattison Food Group on Wikipedia
- [3]ASOS confirms data breach following social engineering attack on employee credentials FTMQ Security, 9d ago
- [4]Ransomware group BYOD claims data breach exposing Trump Mobile subscriber records FTMQ Security, 10d ago
Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 4 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.
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