Breaches and incidents
Pattison Food Group (More Rewards; Save-On-Foods, Buy-Low, Quality Foods): loyalty database accessed
Pattison Food Group said it found unusual activity on one of its servers on Tuesday and “confirmed Friday that customers’ personal information on the More...
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Confirmed by two or more outlets
What happened
- Pattison Food Group said it found unusual activity on one of its servers on Tuesday and “confirmed Friday that customers’ personal information on the More Rewards database was accessed”, including name and, if provided, address, phone number, email and date of birth (Global News; CP24/CTV).
- Root cause: not disclosed.
- No attacker named.
- The company said no passwords, credit card data or transaction history were accessed, the server was taken down, a third-party expert was brought in, and “the appropriate authorities and privacy regulators have been notified”; it did not say how many customers were affected.