All Cybersecurity articles
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M&S gets online food stock checker back up and running
It means that for the first time in weeks, shoppers can browse the food catalogue on M&S’s website and select their favoured store to check the options in stock
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M&S starts to get recruitment back online after cyberattack
For the first time in several weeks, the retailer’s careers page is listing jobs again
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Four arrested over cyberattacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods
All four were arrested at their home addresses and had their electronic devices seized for digital forensic analysis
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M&S chair Archie Norman refuses to discuss paying cyberattackers a ransom
Archie Norman and Co-op group secretary and general counsel Dominic Kendal-Ward appeared before a sub-committee of the Business and Trade Select Committee today
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M&S sends gift cards to shoppers over cyberattack delays and cancellations
Some customers took to online forums to ask whether the email could be a scam
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M&S’s grocery sales growth slowing since cyberattack
Both NIQ and Kantar data show the retailer growing more slowly than it was before hackers struck at Easter
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Co-op discount deal thanks members for ‘support and patience’ during cyberattack
Convenience retailer Co-op is offering its 6.5 million members 25% off when they spend £40 or more
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M&S resumes online orders seven weeks after cyberattack
M&S online clothing orders are back, seven weeks after cyberattackers struck
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M&S grocery sales growth slowed dramatically after cyberattack, data suggests
Previously unpublished NIQ data suggests M&S sales growth slowed to just 0.8% in the four weeks to 17 May
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Promotional Features
Reconsidering responsibility for cybersecurity in retail
Cyber attacks on the UK’s biggest supermarkets are becoming more frequent, more disruptive and more costly. In the next article in our series on unlocking value in 2025, we explore why it’s time for retailers to rethink not just their cyber defences, but who in the business is responsible for them.
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M&S hackers sent abusive extortion email ‘direct to CEO’
The email was sent on 23 April by the hacker group Dragon Force, and included a darknet link to a portal for ransomware victims to negotiate payment, according to the BBC
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Co-op systems now ‘stable’ after punishing cyberattack
Co-op is making ‘significant progress towards a full and complete recovery’
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Comment & Opinion
What the M&S cyberattack tells us about modern crisis comms
In an era where engagement, not accuracy, determines reach, crisis comms cannot be confined to corporate statements and press releases, says Scott Sadeghian-Tehrani, media strategy director at 26PMX
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M&S stores staging walk-in recruitment open days amid cyberattack disruption
M&S suspended online recruitment, along with clothing and home orders, after hackers took control of its systems in a cyberattack in April
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Law 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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Shoppers to tighten belts as grocery inflation ramps up in May
Kantar’s monthly grocery sales figures also revealed M&S maintained strong growth levels despite being hit by a high-profile cybersecurity incident. The retailer generated a 12.3% rise in spending on groceries in the 12 weeks to 18 May 2025
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M&S snaps up 12 former Homebase sites to build new Food stores
The retailer is planning to open its largest ever standalone M&S Food store in Godalming in summer 2026, at 22,000 sq ft
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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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M&S cyberattack ‘nothing to do with underinvestment’ in tech, says chief
M&S CEO Stuart Machin has said the retailer was ‘unlucky’
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M&S cyberattack to cost £300m as disruption continues until July
The cyberattack, which took place over the Easter weekend, forced M&S halt to online orders and is expected to continue affecting availability until July