Morrisons shoppers fume after cyber attack causes shortgages and empty shelves

The supermarket concatenation confirmed that the ransomware onslaught connected the third-party institution Blue Yonder impacted warehouse proviso chains and caused shortages of caller fruit, vegetables, and nutrient successful its stores

Morrisons person seen large nutrient shortages crossed a fig of UK supermarket stores aft a cyber onslaught past week.

Shoppers person taken to societal media to kick astir the deficiency of caller nutrient connected show astatine the supermarket over the past fewer days. The shortages came aft hackers deed a bundle strategy Morrisons uses to negociate its proviso concatenation past week. The supermarket concatenation confirmed that this ransomware onslaught connected the third-party institution Blue Yonder impacted warehouse proviso chains and caused shortages of caller fruit, vegetables, and nutrient successful its stores.

The spokesperson noted that its ambient and frozen nutrient ranges were unaffected. The spokesperson said: "We are presently operating satisfactorily connected our backmost up systems and we're moving precise hard to present for our customers crossed the country."

Even though Morrisons says the incidental has present been resolved done the usage of its backmost up system, shoppers are seeing the effects successful stores. One Morrisons shopper shared an representation to X - formerly Twitter - connected Monday of bare shelves astatine the supermarket's Morley store. The station read: "10.30 monday greeting 25 November Morley store.... wonderment wherefore I decided to go, plentifulness of different bare shelves."

Another shopper posted pictures of much bare shelves, commenting: "More reasons not to store astatine Morrisons Empty support aft bare support astatine Blaydon Morrisons. Is this the effect of peculiarly mediocre banal power successful this subdivision oregon is it systemic Whichever, trying to store determination contiguous was a discarded of clip and a discarded of petrol ..."

A 3rd shopper shared: "Well, one person to accidental the shelves successful my hometown Morrisons yesterday greeting were beauteous empty... nary caller nutrient oregon veg, aforesaid again today!!" A 4th shared: "@Morrisons Canterbury is utterly useless. No deli/butcher/fish/hot counters open. No beef joints, nary braising steak, astir nutrient shelves empty, bulk of veg shelves empty, fractional the breadstuff scope unavailable astatine the bakery... conscionable dire, particularly astatine lone 12 noon!"

It appears the supermarket concatenation has not informed customers of the incident, arsenic galore theories for the crushed down the bare shelves were shared online. One X idiosyncratic suggested Brits were stocking up for Storm Bert portion others blamed the shortages connected the snow. Others were frustrated astatine the supermarket concatenation for not making an authoritative connection astir the contented to assistance customers debar "wasted journeys".

Morrisons has not confirmed however galore stores were impacted; however, posts connected societal media bespeak that the contented was experienced nationwide. The Mirror has approached Morrisons for comment.