A leftie lawfirm with a history of employing Labour MPs is drumming up a class action lawsuit that could cripple M&S following a devastating cyber attack, says James Price

Despite long, painful memories of being dragged by my mum around the clothes section and made to wait outside the changing room, Marks and Spencer is as close to a national treasure as a high street staple can get. So it was as much a shock to me as millions of other customers last year when I walked into an M&S (for a packet of Percy Pigs, naturally) to learn that they were unable to take orders due to a crippling cyber-attack.

As governments and businesses get more reliant on ever more complicated tech, we shouldn’t be surprised to see cybercrime becoming a more attractive proposition. If M&S thought this was as bad as it could get for them, including seeing almost all their profits for the year wiped out, however, they were wrong.

Despite the fact that they didn’t give away any customer passwords (something which they will have to the Investigation Commissioner’s Office) M&S have been attacked again. This time, by leftie lawyers.

That’s right, no sooner had they dealt with........

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