BREAKING: Hackers say they're about to leak millions of customer records from Shoppers Drug Mart.
In this YouTube commentary, the narrator reports that a hacker group claims to possess personal data of millions of Loblaw-owned Shoppers Drug Mart customers, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, health card information, and prescription fill requests, and threatens to release it unless the company responds by the end of the day. The claim follows a recent Loblaw announcement that a third‑party had accessed customers' names, emails, and phone numbers. A cyber‑crime tracking organization posted that the breach is far larger, and a self‑identified hacker posted a sample dataset to prove authenticity, though the narrator notes the uncertainty of the hacker’s identity. The commentary also references a Privacy Commissioner finding that Loblaw violated federal privacy law by retaining purchase histories after account deletions, and recounts a history of repeated data breaches at Loblaw (2017 loyalty‑points theft, subsequent incidents through 2022). The narrator questions why a $2 billion‑profit company appears unable to safeguard data and raises broader concerns about the extent of corporate knowledge of Canadian consumers.
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