Co-OP apologizes after the personal data of the members are leaked during the cyber attack

The cooperative After unveiling Hacker on the personal data of the members during a cyber attack, including names and contact details.

The retail company announced on Friday that it was experiencing “persistent malicious attempts” to access its systems because it already switched off parts of his IT systems at the beginning of this week.

Marks & Spencer And Harrods were also hit by hackers after ransomware M&S had not been able to edit online orders since last Friday, and Loyalty cards do not work.

The national crime agency said it examined the attacks individually, but “careful that they may be connected”. They should serve as a “wake -up call” for companies, added the agency.

A co-op spokesman said: “As a result of the ongoing forensic studies, we now know that the hackers were able to access data from one of our systems and extract them.

“The access data included information about a significant number of our current and previous members.

“These data includes personal data from co-op group members such as names and contact details and contain no passwords, banking or credit card data, transactions or information from members who relate to the products or services of members or customers with the KOOP group.

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“We have implemented measures to ensure that we prevent unauthorized access to our systems and at the same time minimize the disturbance of our members, customers, colleagues and partners.

“We appreciate that our members have set their confidence in our cooperative in providing information.

The company said that its back office and call center services were affected, but the more than 2,000 grocery stores from CO-OP and 800 funerals throughout the UK are traded as usual.

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