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Food Retail Giant's Breach: 2.2 Million Employees Affected

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Personal Data Stolen in Ransomware Hit, Says Dutch Owner of Stop & Shop, Giant Food Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 27, 2025

Food Lion is one many brands of Dutch supermarket giant Ahold Delhaize whose employees' data is affected by a data breach. (Image:William Howard/Shutterstock)

Food retail giant Ahold Delhaize USA is notifying 2.2 million current and former employees that a November 2024 data breach exposed their personally identifiable information.

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The U.S. subsidiary of Dutch-Belgian multinational retail and wholesale holding company Ahold Delhaize runs the largest collection of grocery stores on the U.S. East Coast, and the fourth largest in America, under such brands as Food Lion, the Giant Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop.

"We detected a cybersecurity issue involving unauthorized access to some of our internal U.S. business systems on Nov. 6, 2024 ...


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