Fresh from its announcement that it had fallen victim to a major cyber attack, supermarket chain Supervalu Inc. now faces a proposed class action that accuses the company of failing to protect customers’ payment card information.

On Aug. 15, the company revealed that it had suffered a “criminal intrusion” of its system that processes credit and debit card transactions, exposing account numbers, passwords, three-digit security codes and other sensitive information of customers at Supervalu’s 209 stores. The company has declined to estimate how many accounts were laid bare during the June 22 to July 17 breach.

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