Grocery Store Agrees to Pay $30K to Settle Breach Claims by Vermont Attorney General

A small grocery store chain in Vermont agreed to pay $30,000 to settle claims that it failed to protect consumer data when customer credit card numbers were repeatedly stolen from its computers, the Vermont Office of the Attorney General said in a Sept. 11 statement (In re Natural Provisions, Inc.).

Natural Provisions, Inc., of Williston, Vt., agreed to pay a civil penalty of $14,938, spend $15,062 to upgrade its information technology systems and take other steps to prevent future data breaches, according to the assurance of discontinuance filed Sept. 5 in the Vermont Superior Court.

The company, which ...