Morrisons has vowed to take its hack liability fight to the UK Supreme Court after failing to convince Court of Appeal judges it should not be held responsible for the actions of a rogue employee who leaked the supermarket’s entire payroll via Tor.

The under-fire chain is battling a class action lawsuit brought by 5,000 of its current and former employees, who were enraged when angry IT auditor Andrew Skelton dumped all 100,000 workers’ details online.

Lord Justices Bean and Flaux, as well as Sir Terence Etherton, Master of the Rolls and one of the most senior judges in the land, handed a ruling down in London yesterday that rejected Morrisons’ appeal against the High Court’s December 2017 ruling that the supermarket was vicariously liable for Skelton’s criminal actions.

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