{"id":78509,"date":"2025-05-21T14:44:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/scattered-spider-hackers-could-be-behind-uk-retail-attacks-police-say-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T14:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:44:38","slug":"scattered-spider-hackers-could-be-behind-uk-retail-attacks-police-say-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/scattered-spider-hackers-could-be-behind-uk-retail-attacks-police-say-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Scattered Spider\u2019 hackers could be behind UK retail attacks, police say | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Crime Agency (NCA) has named the notorious cyber-criminal collective Scattered Spider as a key part of their investigation <!--more--> into a recent wave of cyber attacks on UK retailers.<\/p>\n<p>M&amp;S has been hit with ransomware, which has scrambled the company&#8217;s servers rendering computer systems useless, while a huge amount of customer and staff data was stolen and held ransom from Co-op. <\/p>\n<p>The group of hackers is believed to comprise young people, some of them teenagers, and are known to be native English speakers.<\/p>\n<p>There has speculation they have been involved in the UK retail hacks &#8211; but this is the first time the police have confirmed that possibility is being actively investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#UK #Hackers #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Crime Agency (NCA) has named the notorious cyber-criminal collective Scattered Spider as a key part of their investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}