All Crime articles – Page 2
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Interviews
Opal’s gem in fight against organised retail crime
Opal’s Stephanie Coombes is ‘turning the tide’ against organised shoplifting gangs, via retailer collaboration, intelligence and training
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Analysis & Features
How far has the cyberattack knocked M&S off course?
Turning all the retailer’s systems back on is ‘complex’, says CEO Stuart Machin
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News
Iceland adds ‘steak dispensers’ to stores to combat theft
The new fixture has also improved availability and cut food waste in stores, Iceland claims
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News
Horsemeat at risk of entering UK food chain as Horsegate return is a ‘ticking time bomb’
The Association of Independent Meat Suppliers warned of a significant threat to food safety from the paper-based passport system currently used for horse transport
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News
Chilled logistics company alerts clients to ransomware attack
Peter Green Chilled said it was working to ‘re-establish on-site systems and restore full functionality as quickly as possible’
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News
Greggs axes self-service fridges in shoplifting clampdown
Greggs has axed self-serve fridges in at least five sites due to the rise in retail crime
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Comment & Opinion
‘Ambulance-chasing’ lawyers no better than the M&S hackers
Data farm firms will be just as ruthless as the M&S cyber hackers when it comes to exploitation
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News
M&S cyberattack costing retailer £43m a week in lost sales
The cyberattack’s impact on sales will cut M&S’ full-year 2026 earnings before interest and taxes by around 7%, the Bank of America Global Research report notes
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Comment & Opinion
Risky Business and Smashing Security: podcasts delve into M&S and Co-op attacks
The Risky Business and Smashing Security podcasts covered the ‘big dramas’ affecting UK retailers
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News
Co-op ‘could face compensation claims’ after hackers stole member data
The convenience retailer revealed on Friday (2 May) that hackers had accessed personal data relating to a ‘significant number’ of Co-op members
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News
Nearly one in 10 Co-op stores pause contactless payments amid cyberattack
It is understood around 200 of its 2,300 stores stores suffered “payment issues” this morning
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News
Hackers have accessed Co-op member data, retailer admits
The Co-op said that as it continued to experience ‘sustained malicious attempts by hackers’, it had learned they had been able to access data from one of its systems associated with current and past members
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Comment & Opinion
This is not just a cyberattack… this is an M&S cyberattack
Whereas other businesses under attack have been able to operate and negotiate out of plain sight, M&S is trying to manage “proactively”
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News
M&S is taking reputational damage from cyberattack: research
M&S has ‘suffered a measurable blow to its reputation and trust in its brand’
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News
M&S working ‘day and night’ to battle cyberattack, says chief
Stuart Machin’s latest apology to customers comes after Harrods also emerged as the target of a cyberattack yesterday
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Analysis & Features
Marks & Spencer cyberattack: the reasons, damage and lessons
As Scattered Spider – a hacking gang of ‘mostly teenagers’ – is linked to the M&S cyberattack, what’s at stake, and what options does it have?
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Comment & Opinion
Why the NFCU is gaining new powers to tackle food fraud
Enhanced powers will relieve the burden from external partners such as the police, says Andrew Quinn, head of the National Food Crime Unit
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News
Food Standards Agency’s National Food Crime Unit gains investigatory powers
The NFCU’s new powers, under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, will enable the unit’s investigators to apply for and execute search warrants for the first time
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News
Co-op shuts down IT systems following hacking attempt
The convenience retailer has ‘recently experienced attempts to gain unauthorised access to some of our systems’
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News
M&S resorts to pen and paper to honour Sparks loyalty rewards in crippling cyberattack
M&S customers have been unable to claim rewards when scanning the Sparks app at checkouts