M&S website back online, allowing users to browse

The Marks & Spencer website is backmost online aft leaving users incapable to browse for respective hours.

Customers person been incapable to marque online orders for weeks arsenic the retailer deals with the aftermath of a cyber-attack, but connected Wednesday evening the website went down completely.

A connection read: "Sorry you can't browse the tract currently. We're making immoderate updates and volition beryllium backmost soon."

However, conscionable aft 07:00 connected Thursday morning, the institution confirmed that the website was unfastened for browsing again aft making immoderate overnight updates.

Following the cyber attack, M&S said immoderate idiosyncratic lawsuit information had been stolen, which could see telephone numbers, location addresses and dates of birth.

The High Street elephantine assured customers that the information theft did not see useable outgo oregon paper details, oregon immoderate relationship passwords, but added that online bid histories could person been stolen.

The onslaught took spot implicit the Easter weekend, initially affecting click-and-collect and contactless payments. A fewer days aboriginal M&S suspended each online orders.

"Over the past fewer weeks, we person been managing a highly blase and targeted cyber-attack, which has led to a constricted play of disruption," said M&S main enforcement Stuart Machin.

Police are focusing connected a notorious radical of English-speaking hackers, known arsenic Scattered Spider, the BBC has learned.

The aforesaid radical is believed to person been down attacks connected the Co-op and Harrods, but it was M&S that suffered the biggest impact.