Kroger

Supermarket giant Kroger fell victim to a data breach after a service used to transfer files securely was hacked.

The breach compromised the human resources data and pharmacy records and certain money services records of the company.

Kroger took the incident seriously and informed the staff members to be alerted of any suspicious activity.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kroger-data-breach-exposes-pharmacy-and-employee-data/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/kroger

"id": "kro81318422",
"linkid": "kroger",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "02/2021",
"severity": "90",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Supermarket',
                        'name': 'Kroger',
                        'type': 'Company'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Hacked File Transfer Service',
 'data_breach': {'type_of_data_compromised': ['Human Resources Data',
                                              'Pharmacy Records',
                                              'Money Services Records']},
 'description': 'Supermarket giant Kroger fell victim to a data breach after a '
                'service used to transfer files securely was hacked. The '
                'breach compromised the human resources data and pharmacy '
                'records and certain money services records of the company. '
                'Kroger took the incident seriously and informed the staff '
                'members to be alerted of any suspicious activity.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Human Resources Data',
                                 'Pharmacy Records',
                                 'Money Services Records']},
 'response': {'communication_strategy': 'Informed staff members to be alerted '
                                        'of any suspicious activity'},
 'title': 'Kroger Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}