The retailer has revealed that earlier this year, 6.5 million members of the cooperative stole their data on a cyber attack on the British retailers.
The executive director of the Retail Care and Funeral Group, Shirin-Revelation, said he was “destroyed” by the attack on workers and members.
In late April, the company turned off parts of its IT systems after the attack, where hackers accessed and extracted members’ personal data.
Buyers faced empty shelves and payments related to payments, shortly after the incident.
It was one of the high -profile cyber attacks on retailers, which rival and Spencer, especially by a cyberattack around Easter, is said to be about 300 million pounds.
On Tuesday, the co -operative chief confirmed the BBC breakfast that it had access to “name, address and contact information” for all its members.
“We know that many of this information is there anyway, but people will be worried and all members should be worried,” Ms. Khoury-HAQ told the program.
“As soon as we knew what was taken, we informed our members,” he said. We also advised them what to do to protect their information.
“But I have been destroyed, I have been destroyed that information has been taken.”
He said hackers have created a copy of the company’s files but are unable to attack more of its operating systems and install the scheduled ransomware.
“We realized that when cyber criminals started moving inside their systems, this is the time when we took action to prevent them,” the chief said.
“Unfortunately, as long as we did, they had made a copy of our files, but we blocked them from doing anything else,” he said.
“That meant turning off our systems was quite impressive,” he said.
“The good news was that we managed to keep our front line open – our stores and funeral houses remained open, but its impact on our colleagues, the impact on our stores, our members was significant.”
Last week, the National Crime Agency said four young men were arrested for suspected cyber attacks against cooperatives, M&S and Herods.
The comments came as the cooperative announced the attack with a social impact business following the attack.
Hacking games are aimed at preventing cybercrime by identifying young cyber talents and directing their skills to positive and ethical jobs.
Co -operatives said cyber threats are evolving with “worrying” speed and highlighting the need for skilled cyber security experts.
The retail giant said it wants to help prevent cyber crime before starting working with young people’s support.
“We know the first hand to be targeted by cybercrime. The disruption, the pressure it puts on colleagues, and its impact on the people and communities we serve,” Ms. Khoury-HAQ added.
“Our collaboration with hack games allows us to reach early talented young people, guide our skills to protection rather than harm, and open real paths to ethical work. When we expand the opportunity, we reduce the risk, while we have a positive impact on society.”
“There is a great amount of cyberattacks-but many young people do not see the industry, or they do not know that their skills can be well used,” said Fergus Hay, the founder of The Hacking Games.
“This cooperative cooperative helps open this potential. This is that it gives people a chance to do something positive, showing that their talents are valuable and create a generation of ethical hackers to make the world safer.”
