{"id":25927,"date":"2021-12-07T07:14:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T07:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=25927"},"modified":"2021-12-07T07:14:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T07:14:47","slug":"in-the-uk-a-supermarket-chain-has-suffered-a-serious-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=25927","title":{"rendered":"In the UK, a supermarket chain has suffered a serious cyber attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SPAR supermarket chain in the UK has been hit hard by cyber attacks, forcing more than 300 stores across the country to close. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine , Ukraingate , 7 December , 2021 | International News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a spokesman for the network, some stores were able to avoid closing by switching to cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also added that the cyberattack affected all of the company&#8217;s IT systems and left staff without access to e-mail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Currently, the cyber attack is affecting the ability of stores to process card payments, meaning that some SPAR stores are currently closed to customers or only accept cash payments,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesman for the UK&#8217;s National Cyber \u200b\u200bSecurity Center (NCSC) confirmed that the Agency was aware of the situation with the cyber attack on SPAR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Ukrgate<br>Read more : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=25397\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"25397\">Ukraine tightens quarantine rules: major changes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=12167\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"12167\">Convicting a Ukrainian Hacker of Cyber Attacks On American Companies<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SPAR supermarket chain in the UK has been hit hard by cyber attacks, forcing more than 300 stores across the country to close. Ukraine , Ukraingate , 7 December , 2021 | International News According to a spokesman for the network, some stores were able to avoid closing by switching to cash. He also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9931,995],"class_list":["post-25927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-news","tag-supermarket","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25929,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25927\/revisions\/25929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}