Data Breach Exposes 4.2 Million Credit and Debit Cards

An East Cost supermarket chain (Hannaford) announced on Monday that a computer network compromise resulted in the theft of 4.2 million credit & debit card account numbers which has led to 1,800 cases of fraud.  Hannaford became aware of the breach Feb. 27th. 

For the full story, see the following:

• http://www.hannaford.com/Contents/News_Events/News/News.shtml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/704
• http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ipET-mkUFMHvZNMr5WJkcg82NHIwD8VFDD0O0