The C&S Cyber ​​crisis gives approximately 700 million pounds from the evaluation of retail stores

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A suspected electronic attack on approximately 700 million pounds of sterling and Spenced, as FTSE 100 acquires a retail trader to restore its operations nearly a week after turmoil.

Ms Some clients told Monday that he did not know the time it will take on online requests, after the accident forced her to stop accepting clothes and household appliances on Friday last week.

Meanwhile, about 200 agency employees were informed at the Main Internet Distribution Center in M&S in Leicester to stay at home, as there were fewer requests to fulfill. M & S sales online for clothing and household items reached 1.27 billion pounds last year, equivalent to about 3.5 million pounds per day.

The shares of M&S fell by more than 2 percent in the morning, and its decrease extends to 7 percent since last Tuesday, when it first revealed their information technology systems that have been broken. The market value of M&S decreased by 678 million pounds at the time.

The retail seller has struggled to process payments without contact and stop clicking and collecting orders in stores. Some stores no longer accept product returns.

Chaos threatens to disrupt the transformation during the era of CEO Stewart Machin. The retail seller, who reported pre -modified profits, will announce 716.4 million pounds last year, the results of the entire year on May 21.

Cyber ​​security Experts said the episode in the M&S bears the distinctive signs of the Ransomware attack, as Internet criminals steal data from a company or lock their information technology systems for cash.

“You can exclude it is something else except … it looks like an electronic attack,” said Andrew Northj, a partner in the law firm Walker Morris, who has experience in the Cyber ​​Security Law. He added that M & S will try to prove the reason for their attack and “What is the bad actors searching for – is it a ransom? Is it propaganda?”

M & S is one of many retailers suffering from significant disabling at the time. Christmas sales in the WM Marrison Series were disrupted badly due to an electronic attack last year, and Currys and JD SPORTS have suffered customer data breach attacks.

M & S reported last week that “no need to take any action,” indicating that he believes their data is safe. The company refused to submit an update on the situation on Monday.

Kate Calvert, an analyst at Investec, said that although MTA customers will test “a lot of frustration in the short term,” the cyberspace may not harm the company’s long -term brand.

However, Calert added, that competitors will benefit from M&S problems in the meantime. “If you are about to go on vacation, and don’t get (products) from M&S, you will buy them elsewhere,” she said.

M & S informs itself to the Information Commissioner’s office and works with the National Cyber ​​Security Center to respond to the breach. All organizations have to report violations to ICO within 72 hours of accident.