Efforts to investigate the cybersecurity “issue” prompted the grocery giant's parent company to disconnect some systems to protect them.

A cybersecurity “issue” has led the parent company of a supermarket chain to disconnect some systems to protect them.Ahold Delhaize USA said it recently detected a cybersecurity issue within its US network.

The chain's grocery stores are short on certain products as the parent company deals with an undisclosed cybersecurity incident.

Stop & Shop supermarkets across Connecticut have bare shelves due to a cybersecurity issue. “A lot of the shelves were empty, a lot of staples too,” Hamden resident Michael Montefusco said. Shelf after shelf were bare causing customers like Montefusco to cut his grocery list short.