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Following the data breach, Wegmans announces in a press release that two of its internal databases were open to outside access due to an undetected configuration issue, according to Security Magazine.
The incident was first reported around April 19, 2021 by an outside security researcher. The leaked data includes the following types of customer information: phone numbers, names, addresses, shopper club numbers, birth dates, and email addresses along passwords to access accounts on their website.
Luckily, Wegmans assures that all passwords were securely stored in a hashed and salted form and were not recorded in the databases. Moreover, critical data such as social security numbers, credit cards, or banking information, was not stolen as the company does not collect this type of …
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