Amazon Whole Foods Distributor Breach Disrupts Deliveries

A cybersecurity breach at United Natural Foods Inc., the primary distributor for Amazon.com Inc.’s Whole Foods grocery markets, has disrupted deliveries and forced the company’s systems offline.

United Natural Foods Inc. has shut some of its systems while it investigates “unauthorized activity” with forensics experts that it noticed on June 5, the Providence, Rhode Island-based company said Monday in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The outage has caused business disruptions including affecting the firm’s ability to fulfill and distribute customer orders, the filing showed.