{"id":972196,"date":"2025-11-06T09:15:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972196"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:41:23","slug":"cyberattack-wipes-out-marks-and-spencer-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/06\/cyberattack-wipes-out-marks-and-spencer-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberattack wipes out Marks and Spencer profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: British clothes-to-food retailer Marks and Spencer on Wednesday said a cyberattack that affected its online service sent profits sliding in the group&#8217;s first half.<\/p>\n<p>Net profit plunged 98 percent to \u00a36.2 million ($8.1 million) in the six months to late September, compared with profit after tax of \u00a3282.1 million one year earlier, M&amp;S said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The company halted online sales for about six weeks after hackers targeted the business around Easter, stealing some customer data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: British clothes-to-food retailer Marks and Spencer on Wednesday said a cyberattack that affected its online service sent profits sliding in the group&#8217;s first half. Net profit plunged 98 percent to \u00a36.2 million ($8.1 million) in the six months to late September, compared with profit after tax of \u00a3282.1 million one year earlier, M&amp;S said in a statement. The company halted online sales for about six weeks after hackers targeted the business around Easter, stealing some customer data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972196","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}