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Several Minnesota grocery stores and pharmacies are seeing disruptions this week as a major food supplier addresses a cyberattack.

United Natural Foods, Inc. announced Monday that it had detected “unauthorized activity” in its systems. In response, the company took some of its systems offline while it investigates the problem. 

“We are assessing the unauthorized activity and working to restore our systems to safely bring them back online,” the company said in a statement. 

UNFI owns Cub Foods, a major grocery chain in the Twin Cities and across Minnesota. 

Several Cub pharmacy locations are closed due to issues with company systems stemming from the breach. According to a notice from Cub, the impacted locations have not been able to fill any prescriptions received since Friday, when the systems went offline. Cub has a 

 of the pharmacy locations that remain open.

UNFI is a major supplier for several other grocery stores, including Whole Foods. In Minneapolis, the Wedge Community Co-ops said customers might see food out of stock this week while the store works with UNFI to try to fill orders. 

“We are working with our local suppliers to source the products you need while our distributor gets back up and running,” the co-op said in a statement. 

UNFI said it has reported the breach to law enforcement. The company has not shared more details about which systems and operations are impacted.

Estelle Timar-Wilcox

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Several Minnesota grocery stores and pharmacies are seeing disruptions this week as United Natural Foods, Inc. addresses a cyberattack.

Grocery stores see disruptions following security breach at major food supplier

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