When Cyber-Hackers Go Food Shopping UK Supermarkets Are Brought to Their Knees

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First the lettuce shortage. Now this. UK supermarkets are being hammered by cyberattacks as Co-op, M&S, Nisa, Costcutter are all caught with their digital pants down. Shelves are bare, payments frozen, customer data leaked. Execs are now muttering “blockchain” and “resilience” like last-minute prayers.

Co-op has told suppliers to stop deliveries “until further notice.” Around 200 stores can’t process contactless payments. It’s 2025 and that’s like losing oxygen and pretending it’s fine.

At M&S, it’s worse where personal data’s been stolen. Birthdates, contact numbers, even masked card digits. The attack is bleeding them dry to the tune of £43 million a week in lost sales. Seven percent of next year’s earnings, gone. Nisa and Costcutter are struggling too, with whole sections of stock now “unavailable.”

The truth is this is not a glitch. It’s a glimpse. A warning.

Because if it can happen there, what makes Woolies, Coles or Pak’nSave think they’re bulletproof? Most major chains still rely on ageing backend systems that are patched, bloated, and begging for ransomware.

So where’s the plan? Do Woolies and Coles have a fallback if their logistics go dark? Can Pak’nSave reroute stock if its mainframe crashes? Or are we one phishing email away from Kiwis eating tinned spaghetti for a week? Australia and New Zealand love to talk resilience—but resilience means nothing if your food supply can be hacked before breakfast.

Because this isn’t just about groceries, it’s about national stability. When supermarket systems collapse, people panic. Trust breaks down. And if governments don’t start treating digital food infrastructure like critical infrastructure, next time it won’t just be the shelves that are empty-it’ll be the plan of some nefarious group!!

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