Supervalu Cyber Attacks

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SuperValu was attacked between June and July, and suffered another malware attack between late August and September. The first theft included customer and payment card information from some of its Cub Foods, Farm Fresh, Shop ‘n Save, and Shoppers stores. The second attack reportedly involved only payment card data. I believe cyber attacks are way too easy to do nowadays, because companies don't think it can happen to them so they don't prep for it. SuperValu and all these other companies that got hacked later in the years should have had better security than the companies that were hacked at the beginning. Personally, I think its an inside job somewhere down the line, maybe its the government or an former/ current employee or even a competing

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