The retail trade giant in Retail Marks & Spencer confirmed that hackers stole the personal information from its customers during a computer attack last month.
In a short statement with the London stock exchange on Tuesday, the retailer said that an unpleasant amount of information on customers was taken in the data violation. The BBC, which reported the company’s deposit for the first time, cited an online letter Marks & Spencer as it says that the stolen data include customers’ names, birth dates, and -mail and -mail addresses, telephone numbers, family information and online orders.
The company also said that it was restoring its customers’ online account passwords.
Marks & Spencer continues to experiment with interruptions and interruptions through its stores, with some shopping shelves that remain empty after hack has influenced the company’s operations. The online ordering system of the company for customers also remains offline.
It is not clear how many individual data were stolen during hacking. If reached by Techcrunch, Marks & Spencer Alicia Sanctuary spokesman would not say how many people are affected and addressed Techcrunch to his online declaration. Marks & Spencer had 9.4 million customers online on March 30, 2024, according to his latest annual report.
According to reports, a gang of ransomware and extortion called Dragonforce took merit of the computer attacks on several retail giants of the United Kingdom, including Marks & Spencer, according to the media.
The United Kingdom dealers The Co-Op and Harrods were also targeted by hackers in the same period that Marks & Spencer was violated. The cooperative initially said that there was no evidence that the data were compromised, but later he said that the hackers had stolen the customer data. In an update to its website, the cooperative has said that the names of customers, the birth dates, the e-mail addresses and telephone numbers have been exfilted.
The BBC reported last week that Dragonforce said that she had private information of 20 million people who enrolled in the program to which they belong to the cooperative, including current and ex -members.
The United Kingdom National Cyber Security Center declared last week that he was “working with the victims and colleagues of the police” to understand more on hacks.
