Nandi Senator Samson Cherarkey sought a Statement from the Standing Committee on Information, Communication and Technology concerning reported cases of breach of sensitive personal customer data at the Naivas Supermarket. 

While requesting the Statement in the Senate Chamber on Thursday, Senator Cherarkey asked the Senator Allan Chesang-led Committee to state the measures the retail chain has implemented to protect, prevent, and mitigate data breaches involving staff, suppliers and customer data in their ICT platform from future hacking. 

“The ICT Committee should provide a comprehensive evaluation of the recent data loss at Naivas and specify the extent to which customer information, such as phone numbers, addresses and purchasing patterns, were exposed,” Senator Cherarkey said. 

The Legislator also requested the Committee to establish the extent of culpability of Naivas in the data breach and outline the specific actions taken by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) to call the supermarket chain to account. 

“They should also present the cybersecurity report from the contracted firm investigating the data theft at Naivas to this House and confirm whether the customer data held by the Supermarket Chain is safe,” added Senator Cherarkey.

The Committee will subsequently be required to state the level of awareness and education conducted by Naivas for its customers, staff and suppliers regarding their rights and the security of the data collected by Naivas. 

The alleged breach of Customer Data at Naivas Supermarket involved the loss of customer and staff data to hackers.