Vincent Feli Boy’s Blog

BOSTON — Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain announced Monday a security breach that led to thefts of customer credit and debit card numbers. Hannaford said the security breach affects all of its 165 stores in the Northeast, 106 Sweetbay stores in Florida and a smaller number of independent groceries that sell Hannaford products. The company put the number of unique credit and debit card numbers that were potentially exposed to fraud at 4.2 million.

The company said it currently is aware of about 1,800 cases of reported fraud related to the security breach. Ronald Hodge, Hannaford president and CEO, said the company has “taken aggressive steps to augment our network security capabilities” since unusual credit card activity came to light on Feb. 27. Read: Investigators later discovered that the data breach began on Dec. 7. The breach wasn’t contained until March 10.

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Hang on a moment guys. You are bordering along the sides of socialism with remarks of restricting the amount of home ownership one can have…. Sorry, this is free enterprise and free choice. I chose to work harder to own more properties and rent them out to you guys, but you still whinge about property prices. That is not my fault.

Its the way the economy has been going and people are getting wealthier with more disposable income than before. Its never been better and people work hard enough and get a job rather than bludging on the dole, you will get further. Remember take one step at a time. There are other resourceful ways of making money and many are already figuring it out.

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