Retailer Co-op: Attackers snatched all 6.5M member records

Co-op Group's chief executive officer has confirmed that all 6.5 million of the organization's members had their data stolen during its April cyberattack - Scattered Spider is believed to be behind the digital heist.

Shirine Khoury-Haq confirmed the scale of the attack to the BBC Breakfast show on Wednesday, adding that the member file is what the attackers copied, but were thwarted before they could deploy ransomware.

"The good thing was because we did block them, they could not erase what they did," she said.

"So we could monitor every mouse click, we saw every piece of code that they had written, we knew everywhere they went in our systems, and we were able to relay that back to the authorities."

For a £1 ($1.34) fee, Co-op members become a part-owner in the retailer, giving them a say in how the business is run, as well as ...