More Rewards shares more than loyalty

Same story, different day, as grocery loyalty shoppers discovered their names, physical addresses, phone numbers, and birthdates had become an unadvertised special offer. Customers of Save-On-Foods and sister chains got to enjoy the full perks of an unauthorised database viewing. Our state-of-the-art protection against this generous data giveaway was simply dragging the offending server offline after the intrusion occurred. At least passwords and payment cards were spared, because why secure the entire shop when you can just unplug the box later?