{"id":3278,"date":"2025-05-21T19:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2025-05-21T19:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:58:09","slug":"ms-says-it-will-respond-to-april-cyberattack-by-accelerating-digital-transformation-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=3278","title":{"rendered":"M&amp;S says it will respond to April cyberattack by accelerating digital transformation plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"grid grid--cols-10@md grid--cols-8@lg article-column\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-10@md col-6@lg col-start-3@lg\">\n<div class=\"article-column__content\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/div>\n<p>Weeks after suffering one of the most disruptive cyberattacks in UK history, UK retailer Marks &amp; Spencer (M&amp;S) said it will respond by accelerating a planned two-year overhaul of its digital operations to bring it to completion in only six months.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the company expects the aftereffects of the attack, including cessation of online shopping, to continue until July, compressing new IT and digital infrastructure spending into a matter of months might strike investors as ambitious. However, it allows M&amp;S to put a positive spin on the revelation in the company\u2019s latest financial <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.marksandspencer.com\/media\/press-releases\/full-year-results-52-weeks-ended-29-march-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">update<\/a> that the attack, which hit the company on April 19, will knock \u00a3300 million ($400 million) off its profits for the next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeking to make the most of the opportunity to accelerate the pace of improvement of our technology transformation and have found new and innovative ways of working,\u201d said M&amp;S CEO Stuart Machin, without going into detail about what the transformation would entail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are focused on recovery, restoring our systems, operations, and customer proposition over the rest of the first half, with the aim of exiting this period a much stronger business,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks after suffering one of the most disruptive cyberattacks in UK history, UK retailer Marks &amp; Spencer (M&amp;S) said it will respond by accelerating a planned two-year overhaul of its digital operations to bring it to completion in only six months. Given that the company expects the aftereffects of the attack, including cessation of online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}