London department store Harrods said on Thursday hackers had attempted to break into its systems, the third high-profile cyber-attack on a U.K. retailer in two weeks, following incidents at Marks & Spencer and the Co-op Group.
British companies, public bodies and institutions have been hit by a wave of cyber-attacks in recent years, costing them tens of millions of pounds and often months of disruption.
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“We recently experienced attempts to gain unauthorized access to some of our systems,” a statement from Harrods, owned by the