A Bad News for the Users of Schnucks because Information of thousands of credit cards have been hacked by Hackers, and this happened to those customers who used their credit cards at Schnucks.
Who is Schnucks?
Schnucks is a supermarket chain. Based in suburban St. Louis, the company was started in 1939 with the opening of a 1,000-square-foot (93 m2) store in north St. Louis city and now operates 100 stores in five states throughout the midwest. Schnucks also runs stores under the Logli Supermarkets and Hilander Foods banners. Schnucks is one of the largest privately held supermarket chains in the United States (From Wikipedia)
Schnucks Press Release of Today in which they said:
“After an extensive review, we confirmed that Schnucks was the victim of a cyberattack,” said Chairman and CEO Scott Schnuck. “We have identified the issue and taken comprehensive measures to contain the incident. We are cooperating with law enforcement, the Missouri Attorney General’s Office, and the credit card companies to determine the scope and magnitude of this crime and apprehend those individuals making fraudulent purchases. We have been told by the computer forensics expert that the security enhancements we have implemented in the last 48 hours are designed to block this attack from continuing. Our customers can continue using credit and debit cards at our stores. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our customers, and we thank each of them for their patience while we worked hard to investigate their concerns.”
They are advising their customers to contact their bank because they have been hacked.
But some of those customers say the grocery store chain kept them in the dark while thieves stole from their bank accounts.
It is not yet clear that how the Breach was made Investigators said.
