{"id":969685,"date":"2025-10-27T12:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969685"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:12:47","slug":"not-due-to-cyber-attack-tcs-dismisses-uk-media-report-reveals-why-marks-spencer-didnt-renew-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/27\/not-due-to-cyber-attack-tcs-dismisses-uk-media-report-reveals-why-marks-spencer-didnt-renew-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Not due to cyber attack&#8217;: TCS dismisses UK media report; reveals why Marks &amp; Spencer didn&#8217;t renew contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: TCS said that a report published in The Telegraph on Sunday, which claimed that Marks &amp; Spencer did not renew its &#8216;$1-billion&#8217; contract with the IT firm to manage its technology helpdesk, is &#8220;misleading&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The report published by The Telegraph is misleading, with factual inaccuracies including the size of the contract and the continuity of TCS&#8217; work for M&amp;S. As both M&amp;S and TCS have clarified, the service desk contract with M&amp;S followed a regular competitive RFP (request for proposal) process initiated in Jan 2025, with M&amp;S opting to proceed with other partners much prior to the cyber incident in April 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: TCS said that a report published in The Telegraph on Sunday, which claimed that Marks &amp; Spencer did not renew its &#8216;$1-billion&#8217; contract with the IT firm to manage its technology helpdesk, is &#8220;misleading&#8221;. &#8220;The report published by The Telegraph is misleading, with factual inaccuracies including the size of the contract and the continuity of TCS&#8217; work for M&amp;S. As both M&amp;S and TCS have clarified, the service desk contract with M&amp;S followed a regular competitive RFP (request for proposal) process initiated in Jan 2025, with M&amp;S opting to proceed with other partners much prior to the cyber incident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}