Customers of Intermarché stores are currently receiving an email warning them of a leak of their personal data. This is actually a false alarm: there were indeed intrusion attempts, but they were blocked.

Customers of Intermarché stores are currently receiving an email warning them of a leak of their personal data. This is actually a false alarm: there were indeed intrusion attempts, but they were blocked.

Cyberattacks have been increasing lately, as if all the hackers have decided to target France. Boulanger, Truffaut, Cultura, SFR, Retirement Insurance, Meilleurtaux and even Free… In the space of two months, France has experienced around twenty data leaks. It’s a real massacre! Suffice to say that Intermarché customers were disappointed, but not surprised, when they received an email this week from the brand warning them of a leak of their personal data.

However, it seems that this is not the case. On its X account (formerly Twitter), the group Les Mousquetaires published the following message: “Contrary to what may have been announced to certain customers in error, no unauthorized third party was able to access the personal data of @intermarche customers. We apologize for the inconvenience caused”. This would therefore be a false alert resulting from an error in the wording of the message. Individual accounts were indeed targeted by hacking attempts last weekend, but none of them were compromised. So don’t panic!

Intermarché hacking: more fear than harm

The email received by customers states that “your Intermarché account has been accessed by an unauthorized third party”. The brand specifies that the latter “was able to access your personal data and could use them for the purposes of fraud or reduction of your loyalty card, or even identity theft”. Bank details would not be affected. So this is an error, no information has been compromised.

Even if there was no intrusion, Intermarché still took measures to respond to hacking attempts. The brand has therefore temporarily blocked access to the accounts. Also, the next time they log in, affected customers will be asked to change their password. As a reminder, in order to have a sufficiently secure password, it is necessary to use a code consisting of an unpredictable sequence of numbers, letters and symbols. Additionally, it should not be used for other accounts. To simplify the management of its different identifier codes, a password manager with an integrated generator can be a good solution – hoping that it itself does not get hacked.