German discount supermarket chain Lidl notified customers in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands that attackers stole their personal information in a breach at a service provider. Lidl, owned by Schwarz Group, the largest food retailer in Europe, has over 376,000 employees and operates 12,000 stores across Europe and the United States. The discount giant notified affected customers of the incident over email last week and published separate notifications on its support websites in Belgium and the Netherlands. As detailed in these alerts, the breach was discovered last week, with attackers stealing data from customers who used Lidl’s online shop. “Despite high IT security standards, unknown individuals briefly gained access to a separately stored file containing customer data, and part of the data was stolen from it. The online shop’s system itself was not affected,” the company said.

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