Albert Heijn saw traffic hackers, attack via multiple foreign servers

Albert Heijn is struggling with a hacking attack or a serious attempt at one. Officially, the supermarket chain does not want to say what exactly its "cybersecurity incident" entails, but sources in the security world report that Albert Heijn has identified suspicious attack traffic on its systems. It appears that Albert Heijn IT security staff saw suspicious traffic coming in and decided to disable the IT systems. In this way they managed to prevent the hackers from penetrating deeper into the systems.