SuperValu breach confirmed, security expert suggests Target link

SuperValu has confirmed that is has, indeed, suffered a data breach. The supermarket company stated that what it calls a "criminal intrusion into the portion of its computer network that processes payment card transactions for some of its retail food stores, including some of its associated stand-alone liquor stores" may have resulted in "the theft of account numbers, and in some cases also the expiration date, other numerical information and/or the cardholder’s name, from payment cards used at some point of sale systems at some of the Company’s owned and franchised stores."