Websites and apps of Ahold shops hit by outage
Users report problems with Albert Heijn, Etos and Gall & Gall, but the cause and full extent have not yet been confirmed.
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The websites and apps of Albert Heijn, Etos and Gall & Gall were inaccessible or of limited use for some users on Sunday evening and Monday morning. Public reports point to an outage, but Ahold Delhaize had not identified a technical cause or published the full extent in the sources consulted.
An independent uptime monitor recorded problems with Albert Heijn’s public website from 20.47 Dutch time on Sunday evening. The monitor marked the incident as identified, but contained no explanation from Albert Heijn itself.
Users on Reddit also reported problems with the Albert Heijn app and with the websites of Etos and Gall & Gall. Such reports show that customers experienced disruption, but are not a reliable measure of the number of users affected or the geographical extent.
Albert Heijn, Etos and Gall & Gall are part of Ahold Delhaize’s Dutch brand portfolio. Because the services are digitally linked, an outage in shared systems could affect several brands at the same time. That has not been established here, however.
No confirmation was found that there had been a cyberattack, that data had been stolen or that physical shops were unable to sell. Those possibilities must therefore be left out of the report until the company or a competent authority provides information about them.
Customers who wanted to place an online order or needed a loyalty card in an app may therefore have experienced temporary disruption. For now, the only certainty is that an independent monitor recorded the Albert Heijn website as disrupted; the reports involving all three brands have not yet been independently confirmed to a sufficient degree.
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The outage affecting the Albert Heijn website was recorded by an uptime monitor; reports about apps and the other brands are user reports only. The text makes that distinction explicit and makes no statement about the cause or a data breach.
- confirmed The Albert Heijn website had an outage from 20.47 Dutch time. — Losclouds recorded the incident at 18.47 UTC. source
- uncertain Users reported problems with the Albert Heijn app and with Etos and Gall & Gall. — This information comes from public Reddit reports and has not been independently confirmed. source
- confirmed Albert Heijn, Etos and Gall & Gall are brands within Ahold Delhaize. — This is stated on Ahold Delhaize’s brands page. source
- confirmed No confirmation was found of a cyberattack or data breach. — The checked public sources contain no confirmation of this; the article presents it as a lack of confirmation. source
1 correction(s) applied
- Was: The outage affected the websites and apps of Albert Heijn, Etos and Gall & Gall.Now: Users reported problems with all three brands; independently confirmed is only an outage affecting the Albert Heijn website. (The available sources do not confirm the full extent.)
Editor's note
No public statement from Ahold Delhaize was found. The extent has therefore been described in limited terms, and a cyberattack has not been presented as a possibility.Sources
- Albert Heijn outage on October 11, 2026 — Losclouds
- App werkt niet? — Reddit
- Brands — Ahold Delhaize
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- Monday, 12 October 2026, 07:30 Websites and apps of Ahold shops hit by outage (this article)
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