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The head of the cooperative has admitted that the personal data of all 6.5 m of its members were stolen during a cyber attack at the beginning of this year.
Shirine Khoury-Haq said the names, addresses and contact information of its members were stolen by hackers, which made them one of the greatest data injuries ever reported by a British retailer.
When she spoke about the BBC breakfast, she said: “It hurt my members … and that I personally take.”
She said that no financial or transaction data had been stolen and added that she was “incredibly sorry” for the attack.
When the retailer had sworn, the admission of the hack came to prevent teenagers from becoming cyber criminals.
The cooperative said on Wednesday that it would try to identify young people who would identify the danger of becoming cyber-criminals and, after his devastating cyber attack, to bring them to an “ethical” way.
It warned of an “urgent need to hire Z and inspire them to pursue careers in cyber security” because they were afraid of the teen -hacks gangs that attacked British companies.
The cooperative was attacked by cybercriminals in May, so the retailer had difficulty holding its shelves.
Harrods and Marks & Spencer had similar attacks. M&S was forced to close his online orders for weeks and his boss warned of a win of £ 300 million as a result of the attack.
Three male teenagers and a 20-year-old woman were arrested last week in connection with the series of attacks on suspicion of the conspiracy to commit unauthorized access to computer materials with intention, further crimes, extortion, money laundering and participation in activities of an organized crime group.
Ms. Khoury-Haq said: “We know first-hand what it feels like to be targeted by cyber crime.
“We cannot simply step back at Co-OP and hope that it will not happen again for us or for others.”
The cooperative said it wanted to encourage young people to “use their cyber skills as a hacker as a hacker forever, instead of deducting a more shameful route that can cause sacrificing real disorders”.
It has teamed up with the hacking games, a recruitment agent who specializes in finding cyber security jobs for people with “unconventional talent” like young people with autism.
When binding, a pilot program in Co-OP Academies Trust Schools, a group of schools in the north of England, is launched.
