Ahold Delhaize pulls systems offline after network security incident
Ahold Delhaize confirmed a cybersecurity incident and said it took some systems offline to protect them. The multinational grocery retailer runs more than 9,400 stores and owns brands such as Stop & Shop, Food Lion, Albert Heijn, and Delhaize. Stores remained open, but employees reported trouble accessing schedules and pay stubs while some customer websites and apps were unavailable.
Ahold Delhaize operates over 9,400 stores across Europe, the U.S., and Indonesia, with nearly 400,000 employees and about 60 million weekly customers. Its brands include Stop & Shop, Food Lion, Giant Food, Hannaford, Albert Heijn, Etos, Gall & Gall, Delhaize, and others. The company said it isolated certain systems while assessing and mitigating a network security issue, and stores stayed open.
Employees at Stop & Shop reportedly struggled to reach schedules and pay statements, while Dutch and Belgian customer sites/apps for Albert Heijn, Etos, Gall & Gall, and Delhaize were unavailable. A Food Lion internal note described an IT outage that might prevent order shopping, staging, or handoff. This follows a November 2024 ransomware breach affecting U.S. systems and over 2.2 million people.
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