Sarah Butler

1 day ago | aol.co.uk | Julia Kollewe |Sarah Butler

Marks & Spencer has revealed that some personal information relating to thousands of customers was taken in the cyber-attack that has crippled its online operation for more than three weeks. Since the retailer’s IT systems were hit by a ransomware attack over the Easter weekend, it has not been taking online orders, and the availability of some products in its stores has been affected after it took some of its systems offline in response.

1 day ago | sg.finance.yahoo.com | Julia Kollewe |Sarah Butler

Marks & Spencer said the data did not include useable payment or card details, or passwords.Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Marks & Spencer has revealed that some personal information relating to thousands of customers was taken in the cyber-attack that has crippled its online operation for more than three weeks.

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Julia Kollewe |Sarah Butler

Details taken are names, addresses and Marks & Spencer order histories, the Guardian understands

2 days ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Sarah Butler

Food retailers have seen a “massive” increase in pensioner shoplifters over the last year, according to a leading store security firm, amid the rising cost of living. John Nussbaum, director of service for retail at Kingdom Services Group, has said his staff were seeing a “different sort of shoplifter now” as the cost of living “pushes people to something they’ve never done before”.

3 days ago | theguardian.com | Sarah Butler

Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons have suspended supplies from a Lincolnshire pig farm linked to illegal abuse of pigs. Secretly filmed footage has shown farm workers at Northmoor Farm appearing to grab piglets by their hind legs and smashing them on to the hard floor – a banned method of killing known as blunt force traumaor“piglet thumping”.