Woolworths says data of online unit's 2.2 million users breached


FILE PHOTO - People walk past a Woolworths supermarket following the easing of restrictions implemented to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 in Sydney Australia June 16 2020.  REUTERSLoren Elliott

FILE PHOTO - People walk past a Woolworths supermarket following the easing of restrictions implemented to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sydney, Australia, June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott

(Reuters) - Australia's Woolworths Group Ltd said on Friday its majority-owned online retailer MyDeal identified that a "compromised user credential" was used to access its systems that exposed data of nearly 2.2 million users.

The news comes just weeks after Australia's second-largest mobile phone operator Optus suffered a breach that compromised data of up to 10 million customers - one of the biggest such incidents - triggering an overhaul of the country's consumer privacy rules.

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