M&S boss issues huge online shopping update for customers after crippling cyber attack
The boss of the posh supermarket has said he hopes its online operations will be running 'fully' within four weeks as it continues to recover following a damaging cyber attack.
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M&S suffered a crippling cyber attack that started on Easter weekend
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Stuart Machin told the retailer's annual general meeting: 'I have previously highlighted that it would take all of June and all of July, maybe into August but definitely by July.
'During the incident we chose to shut things down because we didn't want the risk of things going wrong.
'Currently, half of online is open but not areas like click and collect. Within the next four weeks we are hoping for the whole of online to be fully on.
'Then our focus will be getting the Donington site back and running. We're hoping that by August we will have the vast majority of this behind us and people can see the true M&S.'
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