Marks and Spencer's website has gone down overnight, leaving customers incapable to browse online.
The retailer, which has been forced to suspend online orders for weeks successful the aftermath of a devastating cyber-attack, saw its regular homepage replaced with a holding surface precocious connected Wednesday night.
People visiting the website this greeting person been greeted with the message: 'Sorry you can't browse the tract currently. We're making immoderate updates and volition beryllium backmost soon.'
MailOnline has contacted M&S for comment.
It comes little than a time aft the retailer warned it faced a £300million deed from the cyber-attack, which took spot a period agone implicit the Easter weekend.
The British precocious thoroughfare elephantine halted orders connected its website and saw bare shelves successful the aftermath.
Customer idiosyncratic data, which could person included names, email addresses, postal addresses and dates of birth, was besides taken by hackers successful the attack.
Stuart Machin, main enforcement of M&S, told reporters that hackers gained entree to the company's IT systems done a 3rd enactment aft 'human error'.
Visitors to the Marks and Spencer website are being greeted with a holding leafage which says 'Sorry you can't browse the tract currently. We're making immoderate updates and volition beryllium backmost soon.'
M&S was deed by a devastating cyber-attack implicit the Easter play a period ago. Pictured: An M&S store successful Oxford Street, London
The brag said helium has been successful interaction with different manufacture bosses to sermon hacks, with rivals the Co-op and Harrods besides targeted with cyber attacks successful caller weeks.
He added: 'We didn't permission the doorway open, this wasn't thing to bash with under-investment.
'Everyone is vulnerable. For us, we were unlucky connected this peculiar time done immoderate quality error.'
The retailer revealed connected Wednesday greeting that online income and profits successful its fashion, location and quality concern person been 'heavily impacted'.
Disruption to online operations is acceptable 'to proceed passim June and into July arsenic we restart, past ramp up operations', it said.
However, it indicated that shoppers volition spot improvements implicit the coming weeks.
Mr Machin suggested astir 85 per cent of its online operations are apt to beryllium restored soon, arsenic the institution focuses connected definite parts of its operations first.
He added that covering and location income person been 'resilient' successful stores successful caller weeks.
Empty shelves wrong an Marks & Spencer store successful Paddington, London, connected April 29
M&S main enforcement Stuart Machin has revealed hackers accessed idiosyncratic lawsuit data
Meanwhile, nutrient income were affected by reduced availability but the concern stressed this is 'already improving'.
The radical has besides reported 'additional discarded and logistics costs' aft switching to manual processes pursuing the attack.
M&S said the incidental is apt to resistance its radical operating profits down by astir £300 cardinal this year, but it expects this to beryllium reduced done outgo management, security and different reactions.
The institution suggested it could trim the interaction of the onslaught by arsenic overmuch arsenic 'half'.
Mr Machin said: 'It has been challenging, but it is simply a infinitesimal successful time, and we are present focused connected recovery, with the purpose of exiting this play a overmuch stronger business.
'There is nary alteration to our strategy and our longer-term plans to reshape M&S for maturation and, if anything, the incidental allows america to accelerate the gait of alteration arsenic we gully a enactment and determination on.
'This incidental is simply a bump successful the road, and we volition travel retired of this successful amended shape, and proceed our program to reshape M&S for customers, colleagues and shareholders.'
It came arsenic the institution reported a higher-than-expected adjusted pre-tax nett of £875.5 cardinal for the twelvemonth to March, up 22.2 per cent connected the erstwhile year.
Empty nutrient shelves astatine a Marks & Spencer successful Cambridge connected April 29 aft the cyber attack
M&S has faced banal issues pursuing the cyber onslaught which has near galore shelves empty
The radical was buoyed stronger profits successful its nutrient arm, which saw income summation by 8.7 per cent to £9 cardinal implicit the year.
M&S revenues grew by 6 per cent to £13.8 cardinal arsenic a full for the year, arsenic fashion, location and quality income grew by 3.5 per cent.
The institution is presently undergoing a large translation programme, which is including changes to its store estate.
The retailer, which presently has 565 stores, said it plans to person 600 stores by 2028, comprising 420 bigger nutrient stores and 180 afloat clothing, location and nutrient stores.
It added that the program is inactive connected way contempt the caller disruption.
M&S besides said it has accelerated plans to put successful improvements to its exertion to present instrumentality spot implicit the adjacent six months, aft antecedently indicating it would instrumentality 2 years.
It comes aft detectives investigating cyber attacks connected UK retailers including M&S, Co-Op and Harrods revealed they were focused connected the Scattered Spider unit of English-speaking teenage hackers.
Paul Foster, caput of the National Crime Agency's nationalist cyber transgression unit, told the BBC: 'We are looking astatine the radical that is publically known arsenic Scattered Spider, but we've got a scope of antithetic hypotheses and we'll travel the grounds to get to the offenders.
'In airy of each the harm that we're seeing, catching whoever is down these attacks is our apical priority.
And Google said past week that those liable were besides targeting US companies, with retailers worldwide present racing to boost their cyber defences.
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