In the north of England, a major cyberattack hits recently on more than 300 branches of the convenience store chain, “Spar.” It has led to the closure of these stores at a time, and the experts have described this issue as a “total outage.” Across Lancashire, the outage is still in effect as Lawrence Hunt & Co Ltd claimed, this company runs 25 branches Spar across Lancashire, and this outage is affecting the following departments across the SPAR network:- Credit cards Back office systems Due to this “total outage,” the store operators and their corresponding staffs are unable to operate the stores, as they are prevented from taking any card payments since the systems were locked. However, some of the remote branches of the chain are still operating but, here, they are operating the remote branches with cash transactions only for grocery items only.

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