{"id":307444,"date":"2026-10-15T20:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307444\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:20:11","slug":"giant-parent-company-provides-update-on-recent-cybersecurity-attack-reinstatement-efforts-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307444\/","title":{"rendered":"GIANT parent company provides update on recent cybersecurity attack, reinstatement efforts | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA &#8211; GIANT is providing an update on a recent cybersecurity attack on the store\u2019s parent company, which affected the grocery store\u2019s app and website earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Manager of Public Relations at The GIANT Company, Ashley Flower, says the company is working to restore service as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The manager says that any unfulfilled orders placed through <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/Giantfoodstores.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Giantfoodstores.com<\/a> or the GIANT app will be refunded.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Flower stated that delivery orders can be placed through Instacart, DoorDash, and Uber Eats. GIANT stores, pharmacies, and fuel stations remain open during normal business hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we\u2019re experiencing technical difficulties, we\u2019re making it easy for our customers to still get savings,\u201d Flower explained.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the GIANT grocery store app and website became unavailable to customers due to what their parent company is calling a \u201ccybersecurity incident.\u201d\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002<\/p>\n<p>However, GIANT isn&#8217;t the only recent target.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/ap\/ap-business\/cyberattack-targeting-refrigeration-systems-hits-700-supermarkets-french-government-says\/article_e4676453-bfde-5103-bd76-2ad5cf3924a2.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Associated Press reported<\/a> that cyberattacks also disrupted European supermarket chains, causing refrigeration systems to overheat at hundreds of stores in France.<\/p>\n<p>GIANT&#8217;s parent company, Ahold Delhaize, said in an online statement that the teams are taking steps to assess and get the issue under control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis resulted in us taking precautionary measures, including taking some systems offline to help protect them,\u201d Ahold Delhaize shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognize that these actions have caused disruption for customers, associates and partners, but protecting our infrastructure in the best interest of our customers, associates and partners is a top priority,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>The parent company says it is working with urgency to investigate the incident and restore the affected systems safely.<\/p>\n<p>They say that they are working on performing controlled re-launches of the systems one at a time.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into this cybersecurity incident is ongoing, and the company says they are not sharing further details at this moment, as it could compromise security measures or interfere with response efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough our investigation is still ongoing, we have no evidence at this moment that customer, associate, and partner data was taken in this cybersecurity incident,\u201d Ahold Delhaize said.<\/p>\n<p>GIANT Stores around the region remain open. Updates on the incident will be provided as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>Read the parent company\u2019s full statement <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.aholddelhaize.com\/update-on-ahold-delhaizes-cybersecurity-incident\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">online here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA &#8211; GIANT is providing an update on a recent cybersecurity attack on the store\u2019s parent company, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[214,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-307444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}