Supplier to major supermarkets hit by cyber attack

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2 weeks ago 3 of our major stores were hit by an enormous Cyber attack.. M&S who lost upwards of 100 Million pounds and are still struggling to reapaair itself ... the Co-op-, and Harrods.. to a lesser degree but by the same attackers..


Today this.....

A distributor to the UK's major supermarkets has said it is being held to ransom by cyber hackers.
Logistics firm Peter Green Chilled said it supplies supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury's, and Aldi, but it is relatively small compared with larger UK food distributors.
It told BBC's Wake Up to Money clients were "receiving regular updates" including "workarounds" on how to continue deliveries while one of its customers said thousands of their products could go to waste.

Recent major cyber-attacks on Marks & Spencer and Co-op were larger, but the attack highlights the challenges smaller logistics firms face, an industry source said.

In an email sent on Thursday, seen by the BBC, Peter Green Chilled said it had been the victim of a ransomware attack.
A ransomware attack is when hackers encrypt a victim's data and lock them out of computer systems, demanding payment to hand back control.
The email said no orders would be processed on Thursday, although any order prepared on Wednesday would be sent.

Peter Green Chilled confirmed to the BBC the cyber attack happened on Wednesday evening but it said it was not in a position to discuss further.
"The transport activities of the business have continued unaffected throughout this incident," its managing director Tom Binks said.
One of Peter Green Chilled's customers, Black Farmer founder Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, said he had "something like ten pallets worth of meat products" with Peter Green Chilled.

He said if those products don't get to the retailers in time they will have to be "thrown in the bin".
Ten pallets is "thousands and thousands of packs of products, sitting there, and the clock is ticking," he said. "There's no information. Everything along the chain has to be stopped, and then there are thousands of pounds worth of product that are just wasting away."
 

It is hard to avoid being suspicious. People often point to known-enemy lists but forget or have no unknown-enemy lists.

Some surprising "friendly" regimes have huge investments in cyberwarfare R&D, which they typically mask as cyber defense operations. Names like World Social Forum and even the Vatican crop up over and over when you start to research the subject.
 
I heard that the Co-op managed to mitigate the worst if it, like M&S suffered, by the CEO organising pulling the plugs early on so no internet.
Our only grocery shop in the village is a Co-op & they’re coping ok.
 

Pendle said:
I heard that the Co-op managed to mitigate the worst if it, like M&S suffered, by the CEO organising pulling the plugs early on so no internet.
Our only grocery shop in the village is a Co-op & they’re coping ok.
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Yes the Co-op were more on the ball than M&S... and they caught it early.. whereas it was 2 days before M&S saw it...

Some co-ops have nothing at all ... I was just reading about some of the Islands where the only shop is a co-op and they've run out of almost everything
 
Marks & Spencer estimates that a cyberattack that stopped it from processing online orders and left store shelves empty will cost it about 300 million pounds ($403m).


The company said in a business update (PDF) on Wednesday that disruption from the “highly sophisticated and targeted cyber attack,” which was first reported around the Easter weekend, is expected to continue until July.
Online sales of food, home and beauty products have been “heavily impacted” because the company, popularly known as M&S, had to pause online shopping.


The attack on one of the biggest names on the United Kingdom high street forced M&S to resort to pen and paper to move billions of pounds of fresh food, drinks and clothing after it switched off its automated stock systems.


That led to bare food shelves and frustrated customers, denting profits.


A month on, M&S’s large online clothing service remains offline, and the attack has wiped more than a billion pounds off its stock market value.
M&S, which has 65,000 staff and 565 stores, said the hack would cost about 300 million pounds ($403m) in lost operating profit in its year to March 2026, although it hopes to halve that impact through insurance, cost control and other actions.


Chief executive Stuart Machin said the company is focused on recovery and restoring its systems and operations.
 
“This incident is a bump in the road, and we will come out of this in better shape,” Machin said. He did not provide any details on the attack or who might be behind it.


Earlier this month, the company said customer personal data, which could have included names, emails, addresses and dates of birth, was taken by hackers in the attack.


Two other British retailers, luxury London department store Harrods and supermarket chain Co-op, have also been targeted by cyberattacks at around the same time.
 
A ransomware attack/virus that did more than get onto a personal computer. They're out there and am surprised it got onto business hardware.

When they first cameout they got onto your computer as a download and all one had to do was uninstall it. Now they're much more sophisticated
 
hollydolly said:
Earlier this month, the company said customer personal data, which could have included names, emails, addresses and dates of birth, was taken by hackers in the attack.
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If it’s like businesses here, they’ll offer one or two years of tracking by a credit tracking company. I’ve had about 5 years, off and on from different companies.
 
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