Kroger: Some Pharmacy Customer Data Impacted in Vendor Hack

Kroger: Some Pharmacy Customer Data Impacted in Vendor Hack
The Kroger supermarket chain's headquarters is shown in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 28, 2018. Lisa Baertlein/Reuters
The Associated Press
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BOSTON—Kroger says personal data, including Social Security numbers of some of its pharmacy and clinic customers, may have been stolen in the hack of a third-party vendor’s file-transfer service.

The Cincinnati-based grocery and pharmacy chain said in a statement Friday that it believes less than 1 percent of its customers were affected—specifically some using its Health and Money Services—as well as some current and former employees because a number of personnel records were apparently viewed.