More than 300 Spar shops in north of England hit by cyberattack

Total IT outage' at convenience stores forced them to shut or accept cash payments only

More than 300 branches of the convenience store chain Spar in the north of England have been hit by a cyberattack, forcing many of them to close.

The attack hit the company's computer systems, causing a total IT outage" that has prevented staff from taking card payments and locked them out of emails.