Ahold Delhaize confirms cyberattack behind outages at US and European grocery brands

Ahold Delhaize said malicious actors caused the IT outages that forced it to take systems offline across most US and European brands, and it filed a police report in the Netherlands. Online services for Food Lion and Stop & Shop remain down, while Albert Heijn, Etos and Gall & Gall sites are back online. The company said it has no evidence that customer or employee data was stolen.

• The attack disrupted online services in the US, Netherlands and Belgium; stores stayed open
• Albert Heijn, Etos and Gall & Gall sites are restored; Albert Heijn deliveries resume Friday
• Online shopping at Food Lion and Stop & Shop is not yet functional
• A 2024 breach at Ahold Delhaize exposed data of more than 2.2 million people