M&S chairman Archie Norman’s first public appearance since the cyberattack was covered widely by the national press.
The FT majored on Norman’s disclosure that M&S turned to the “muscle” of the US FBI agency for support in the aftermath of the attack and suggestion that the National Crime Agency is under-resourced to keep pace with evolving threats.
The Times backed Norman’s call for mandatory disclosure to the National Cyber Security Centre to enhance central intelligence, with a comment piece noting “not telling the police when you’ve been burgled achieves nothing.”
The Telegraph also focused on what it called a cover up by other businesses who have kept cyberattacks private. “We have reason to believe there have been two cyberattacks of large British companies in the last four months, which have gone unreported,” Norman told MPs at a sub-committee of the Business and Trade Select Committee.
As The Grocer reported yesterday, Norman declined to comment on whether M&S paid cyberattackers a ransom.
The Guardian has this useful summary of the first volume of the final enquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal chaired by Sir Wyn Williams. As The Grocer reported yesterday, the report revealed that 13 people had been driven to suicide, and another 59 had contemplated it as a result of their experiences with Horizon and the Post Office.
Other new details in the 166-page report include the finding that 1,000 operators were wrong convicted, a figure higher than previous reported estimates which varied between 700 and just over 900.
Around 10,000 people are seeking financial redress with the government, Post Office and Fujitsu given until 10 October to come up with a programme of “restorative justice” by the end of that month.
The Times reports that Axis Logistics, the transport operation of the Prax Group, has been cut off from accessing fuel from the company’s Lindsey oil refinery after the facility in Humberside was placed into administration by the government last week. The company had transported fuel to petrol station forecourts operated by Prax and other companies including supermarkets. All 137 staff have been made redundant.
Sister publication Forecourt Trader has reported how Prax’s administration has left independent forecourts for periods without fuel and cost thousands of pounds in lost trade.
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