April 25, 2025
Marks & Spencer stopped taking online orders in the UK and Ireland on Friday following a cyber attack which it reported earlier in the week, an announcement which sent its shares down by 5%. The British company, which sells its …
February 25, 2019
Ever since Brexit supporter Arron Banks made the largest political donation in British history he’s been dogged by questions about where he got the money. For a man who told the Financial Times he was worth 100 million pounds ($130 …
October 1, 2018
Britain’s markets watchdog has fined Tesco 16.4 million pounds ($21.4 million) for failing to protect account holders at its bank from a “foreseeable” cyber attack two years ago. The Financial Conduct Authority said that in November 2016 cyber attackers exploited …
April 10, 2018
Fake news threatens U.K. businesses with reputational damage as well as falling sales and share prices, adding to the growing risk from cyber attacks facing companies from local Indian restaurants to multinationals. That’s the warning from the National Cyber Security …
May 18, 2017
Days after the global cyber attack, U.K. police are trying to figure out whether it was an established network of criminals, state-backed hackers or bored teenagers that crippled the country’s health service. The malware campaign affected more than 200,000 computers …
February 8, 2017
British banking executives and security experts are growing frustrated at the dearth of information available more than three months after 2.5 million pounds ($3.09 million) was stolen from Tesco Bank in the UK’s biggest financial cyber heist. Security officers normally …
November 9, 2016
Retailer Tesco Plc’s banking arm said on Tuesday that 2.5 million pounds ($3 million) had been stolen from 9,000 customers over the weekend in what cyber experts said was the first mass hacking of accounts at a western bank. Tesco …
November 8, 2016
Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) is leading a criminal inquiry into the theft of money from thousands of Tesco Bank accounts that the UK financial watchdog said was unprecedented. New cyber crime agency National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a government …