{"id":3939,"date":"2021-12-06T17:38:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T16:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/06\/more-than-300-spar-shops-in-north-of-england-hit-by-cyberattack\/"},"modified":"2021-12-06T17:38:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T16:38:02","slug":"more-than-300-spar-shops-in-north-of-england-hit-by-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/06\/more-than-300-spar-shops-in-north-of-england-hit-by-cyberattack\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 300 Spar shops in north of England hit by cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Total IT outage\u2019 at convenience stores forced them to shut or accept cash payments only<\/p>\n<p>More than 300 branches of the convenience store chain Spar in the north of England have been hit by a cyberattack, forcing many of them to close.<\/p>\n<p>The attack hit the company\u2019s computer systems, causing a \u201ctotal IT outage\u201d that has prevented staff from taking card payments and locked them out of emails.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/dec\/06\/more-than-300-spar-shops-in-north-of-england-hit-by-cyberattack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d4e3d6fb4eb24a94e7bd21d62a2bbace56bc0eba\/0_0_2000_1200\/master\/2000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=11ef2c6b76d50251b0964b121b5e7f27\" title=\"More than 300 Spar shops in north of England hit by cyberattack\" \/>\u2018Total IT outage\u2019 at convenience stores forced them to shut or accept cash payments only<br \/>\nMore than 300 branches of the convenience store chain Spar in the north of England have been hit by a cyberattack, forcing many of them to close.<br \/>\nThe attack hit the company\u2019s computer systems, causing a \u201ctotal IT outage\u201d that has prevented staff from taking card payments and locked them out of emails. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Total IT outage\u2019 at convenience stores forced them to shut or accept cash payments only More than 300 branches of the convenience store chain Spar in the north of England have been hit by a cyberattack, forcing many of them to close. The attack hit the company\u2019s computer systems, causing a \u201ctotal IT outage\u201d that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/06\/more-than-300-spar-shops-in-north-of-england-hit-by-cyberattack\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More than 300 Spar shops in north of England hit by cyberattack<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}