All Crime articles – Page 3
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NewsLaw firm signs up 300 M&S customers in days for class action data lawsuit
Thompsons Solicitors has made it easy for M&S customers to sign up with an online form, while another firm is gathering claims on Facebook
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NewsLogistics businesses urge reform to ‘failed’ clandestine migrants scheme
The clandestine entrant civil penalty scheme enables Border Force to levy fines on anyone found to have a clandestine entrant in their vehicle, with fines going up to £10,000 per person
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NewsBig Brother Watch lodges complaint over Asda’s facial recognition trial
The complaint argues Asda is ‘infringing the data rights’ of shoppers
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InterviewsOpal’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 & FeaturesHow 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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NewsIceland 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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NewsHorsemeat 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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NewsChilled 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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NewsGreggs 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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NewsM&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 & OpinionRisky 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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NewsCo-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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NewsNearly 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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NewsHackers 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 & OpinionThis 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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NewsM&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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NewsM&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 & FeaturesMarks & 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 & OpinionWhy 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