Albert Heijn online deliveries to stay offline until at least Thursday after cyber incident


Bags of sugar are displayed at Albert Heijn supermarket in Eindhoven, Netherlands, January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Eva Plevier

AMSTERDAM, Oct 19 (Reuters) - ⁠AholdDelhaize's Albert Heijn, the largest supermarket chain ⁠in the Netherlands, will not resume online ‌deliveries before Thursday at the earliest, according to a message in its app on Monday, extending to at least ​11 days an outage caused ⁠by what the company ⁠has called a "cybersecurity incident".

• Websites and delivery services of ⁠the ‌company's Dutch and US chains remained offline on Monday, a week after ⁠the incident prompted it to shut down ​some of ‌its own IT systems

• Collectively, the US brands, ⁠which ​includeStop & Shop, Giant Food, Hannaford and Food Lion, form one of the largest food retailers in the ⁠United States

• Deliveries at the ​Belgian Delhaize chain were resumed over the weekend

• Ahold said on Friday it was working on a "controlled ⁠relaunch" of several systems

• The company has so far declined to share details of the incident, saying investigations are ongoing

• It has said there ​was no evidence that ⁠any customer data had been stolen

• Physical stores of ​several chains have remained open, ‌but have struggled with ​supplies as distribution channels were also affected

(Reporting by Bart Meijer, Editing by Xevi Fontdegloria)

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