Comparison Overview

SEPHORA

VS

Safeway

SEPHORA

Neuilly sur Seine, Ile de France, FR, 92576
Last Update: 2025-12-09

Sephora is the world’s leading global prestige beauty retail brand. With over 56 000 talents across 35 markets, Sephora connects customers and beauty brands within the world’s most trusted and dynamic beauty community. We serve a highly engaged community of hundreds of millions of beauty followers across our global omnichannel network of more than 3 000 stores and iconic flagships, and our e-commerce and digital platforms, offering personalized and immersive seamless experiences across every touchpoint. With our curation of close to 500 brands and our own label, Sephora Collection, we offer the most unique and diverse range of prestige beauty products, tailored to our customers’ needs from fragrance to make-up, haircare, skincare and beyond, as we constantly reimagine the world of prestige beauty. Since our inception in 1969 in Limoges, France, and as part of the LVMH Group since 1997, we have been disrupting the prestige beauty retail industry. Today, we continue to break with convention to drive our mission: champion a world of inspiration and inclusion where everyone can celebrate their beauty.

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 42,667
Subsidiaries: 101
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
8
Attack type number
2

Safeway

US
Last Update: 2025-12-09
Between 800 and 849

Safeway operates as a banner of Albertsons Companies. Locally great and nationally strong, Albertsons Cos. (NYSE: ACI) is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States. Albertsons Cos. operates stores across 34 states and the District of Columbia under 20 well-known banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen, and Carrs. Albertsons Cos. is committed to helping people across the country live better lives by making a meaningful difference, neighborhood by neighborhood. In 2019 alone, along with the Albertsons Companies Foundation, the company gave nearly $225 million in food and financial support. These efforts helped millions of people in the areas of hunger relief, education, cancer research and treatment, programs for people with disabilities and veterans outreach.

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 51,331
Subsidiaries: 20
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
3
Attack type number
2

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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SEPHORA
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
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Safeway
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
Compliance Summary
SEPHORA
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Safeway
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for SEPHORA in 2025.

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Safeway in 2025.

Incident History — SEPHORA (X = Date, Y = Severity)

SEPHORA cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — Safeway (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Safeway cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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SEPHORA
Incidents

Date Detected: 9/2025
Type:Breach
Motivation: National Security, Social Stability, Data Sovereignty, Economic Protection
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 9/2025
Type:Breach
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 7/2025
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Unauthorized Access
Blog: Blog
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Safeway
Incidents

Date Detected: 12/2023
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Credential Theft (Fraudulent Website)
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 12/2022
Type:Breach
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 8/2014
Type:Cyber Attack
Motivation: Criminal (Potential Theft of Payment Card Data)
Blog: Blog

FAQ

SEPHORA company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to Safeway company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

SEPHORA company has faced a higher number of disclosed cyber incidents historically compared to Safeway company.

In the current year, SEPHORA company has reported more cyber incidents than Safeway company.

Neither Safeway company nor SEPHORA company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Both Safeway company and SEPHORA company have disclosed experiencing at least one data breach.

Both Safeway company and SEPHORA company have reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks.

Neither SEPHORA company nor Safeway company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither SEPHORA nor Safeway holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

SEPHORA company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Safeway company.

Safeway company employs more people globally than SEPHORA company, reflecting its scale as a Retail.

Neither SEPHORA nor Safeway holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither SEPHORA nor Safeway holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither SEPHORA nor Safeway holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither SEPHORA nor Safeway holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither SEPHORA nor Safeway holds HIPAA certification.

Neither SEPHORA nor Safeway holds GDPR certification.

Latest Global CVEs (Not Company-Specific)

Description

NXLog Agent before 6.11 can load a file specified by the OPENSSL_CONF environment variable.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 8.1
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description

uriparser through 0.9.9 allows unbounded recursion and stack consumption, as demonstrated by ParseMustBeSegmentNzNc with large input containing many commas.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 2.9
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Description

A vulnerability was detected in Mayan EDMS up to 4.10.1. The affected element is an unknown function of the file /authentication/. The manipulation results in cross site scripting. The attack may be performed from remote. The exploit is now public and may be used. Upgrading to version 4.10.2 is sufficient to fix this issue. You should upgrade the affected component. The vendor confirms that this is "[f]ixed in version 4.10.2". Furthermore, that "[b]ackports for older versions in process and will be out as soon as their respective CI pipelines complete."

Risk Information
cvss2
Base: 5.0
Severity: LOW
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
cvss3
Base: 4.3
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
cvss4
Base: 5.3
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Description

MJML through 4.18.0 allows mj-include directory traversal to test file existence and (in the type="css" case) read files. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-12827.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 4.5
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L
Description

A half-blind Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability exists in kube-controller-manager when using the in-tree Portworx StorageClass. This vulnerability allows authorized users to leak arbitrary information from unprotected endpoints in the control plane’s host network (including link-local or loopback services).

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 5.8
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N