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UK Co-op Confirms Data Breach of 6.5 Million Members – One of the UK’s largest consumer co-ops confirmed that personal data of all 6.5 million members was stolen in an April cyberattack that caused IT outages and food shortages bleepingcomputer.com bleepingcomputer.com. Co-op CEO Shirine Khoury-Haq apologized on BBC, saying “their data was copied, and the criminals did have access to it… That is the awful part” bleepingcomputer.com. No financial data was taken, but names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, and membership details were exposed. The breach began via a social engineering password reset on April 22, letting attackers grab an Active Directory database and later deploy DragonForce ransomware bleepingcomputer.com bleepingcomputer.com. Scattered Spider, a hacking group linked to attacks on retailers Marks & Spencer and Harrods, is suspected of involvement cybersecuritynews.com bleepingcomputer.com. Four suspects were arrested in the UK last week in connection with the Co-op and related attacks bleepingcomputer.com.