UK retailer Co-op confirms hack, reports ‘small impact’ to its systems

Just a few days after Marks & Spencer reported suffering from a major cyber-attack, another UK-based major retailer confirmed an intrusion into its IT systems.

After reports in UK media of an April 30 internal letter informing the retailer’s staff that the company has been forced to shut down parts of its IT systems, the Co-operative Group (Co-op) confirmed to Infosecurity that it has “recently experienced attempts to gain unauthorised access to some of our systems.”

This intrusion has led the company to “take proactive steps to keep our systems safe, which has resulted in a small impact to some of our back office and call centre services,” a Co-op spokesperson said.

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