Lidl Data Breach Affects Customers Across Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands

German discount supermarket chain Lidl reported a data breach affecting customers in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands after attackers compromised one of its IT service providers. The company disclosed the incident last week, stating that unidentified threat actors briefly accessed and exfiltrated a separately stored file containing customer data. No specific details about the type of data stolen or the number of affected individuals were provided. The breach occurred despite Lidl’s implementation of high IT security standards. The attack targeted a third-party service provider rather than Lidl’s internal systems directly.