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Whole Foods Market recently announced that those who drank and dined in its taprooms and full-service restaurants should closely monitor their debit and credit cards as card-payment information may have been hacked.

The store chain uses a separate checkout system for its grocery store, and those who only shopped at the store are not affected by this breach. Customers of Amazon.com Inc., which now owns Whole Foods, also were not affected, Whole Foods said.

The company, in its statement, did not say how many of its taprooms or restaurants were affected.

This announcement closely follows a breach being investigated at Sonic Drive-In, which may have led to some 5 million credit and debit cards being exposed. It also comes on the heels of the recent data breach at Equifax that revealed personal information of 143 million consumers.

NAFCU continues to push for Congress to pass a strong national data security standard for retailers that would hold them to the same standards credit unions already follow under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Credit union representatives can reach out to their members of Congress and urge them to support such a measure through NAFCU's Grassroots Action Center.