Co-op chief ‘personally hurt’ following cyber attack that stole 6.5 million members’ data

Co-op boss admits 6.5m members had data stolen in cyber attackSource: BBC Breakfast

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00:00We've kept them entirely informed of everything that we've been up to and how we've been protecting

00:05their data going forward and how to protect themselves as well. Is their data safe now?

00:11Their data was copied and, you know, so the criminals did have access to it like they do

00:16when they hack other organisations. That is the awful part of this, unfortunately. It was personal

00:23to me because it hurt them. It hurt my members. They took their data and it hurt our customers.

00:29And that I do take personally.