21 October 2026 - 07:51
Category: IT Fail
Another Grocery Giant Bites The Dust
Ahold Delhaize is piecing its disrupted websites and apps back together after a cyberattack. Clearly, disaster recovery is everyone's favourite weekend hobby.
Source: SecurityWeek
The Full Story
Here we go again, as retail giant Ahold Delhaize spends its precious working hours restoring European apps and US e-commerce brands knocked offline by a cyberattack. Why do we even bother keeping storefronts online if digital disruption is merely the default state of modern commerce? To protect ourselves from these recurring meltdowns, systems teams must resign themselves to laboriously restoring disrupted services and praying backups actually work. Both European and American brands are stuck suffering the tedious joy of being rebuilt.