After yesterday's Kido International ransomware attack, I've spent the night reading through the technical details and regulatory implications. What I'm seeing isn't just disturbing. It's a fundamental shift in how we need to think about protecting sensitive data in British small businesses.

Yesterday morning, 18 UK nursery locations woke up to a ransomware attack. The attackers didn't just encrypt systems. They stole the entire database. Names of 8,000 children. Home addresses. Photos. Safeguarding notes.

Then they did something I've never seen in four decades of IT: They published profiles and photographs of ten children on their darknet leak site.

Co-op's CEO has officially confirmed their April 2024 cyberattack cost £80 million in earnings impact. The perpetrators? Teenagers using basic social engineering to steal personal data from all 6.5 million members. No sophisticated nation-state attack, just "Can you reset my password, mate?" targeting the right employee. With zero cyber insurance coverage, Co-op absorbed every penny while 2,300 stores suffered empty shelves and 800 funeral homes reverted to paper-based systems. But £80 million might just be the opening act here. Pending ICO fines, potential individual member compensation claims, and mounting legal costs could easily push the final bill past £400 million total.

September 2025 delivered the most devastating supply chain cyberattacks in UK history. Jaguar Land Rover's £72 million daily losses and Collins Aerospace's airport chaos weren't isolated incidents - they exposed systematic vulnerabilities destroying British business resilience.

The same criminal networks using identical social engineering tactics have paralyzed critical infrastructure worth billions. While government offers reactive support, these attacks validate every cybersecurity warning ignored throughout 2025.

From M&S to the BHA, the pattern is undeniable: basic security failures enable sophisticated criminals to systematically destroy economic infrastructure.

The regulatory reckoning is coming, and most businesses remain spectacularly unprepared.

The British Horseracing Authority just got absolutely hammered by ransomware, and frankly, I'm not surprised. Here's an organization that regulates a £1 billion industry, handles medical records for hundreds of jockeys, and oversees one of Britain's most prestigious sporting events. And they fell for the oldest trick in the book: some criminal rang their IT helpdesk, pretended to be an employee, and walked away with the keys to the kingdom. If the people who regulate horse racing can't secure their own stable, what hope do the rest of us have? Pull up a chair.

Co-op just confirmed a major data breach—but only after the hackers got sick of waiting and contacted the BBC themselves. Yes, really. It turns out customer data wasn’t just mishandled, it was gift-wrapped and forgotten like an expired loyalty card.

With Zellis—the same payroll firm linked to the BBC and BA MOVEit fiascos—once again in the mix, this breach isn’t just another blip.

It’s part of a growing pattern of retail cybersecurity disasters. And with legal and funeralcare data involved, the stakes are higher than most boardrooms seem willing to admit. So the real question is: who's next?

Percy Pig and Colin the Caterpillar Have Been Taken Hostage – And Yes, This Is Real Life
Marks & Spencer has confirmed it’s the latest victim of a cyberattack, but forget dull technical jargon — the internet’s gone wild over rumours that iconic treats Percy Pig and Colin the Caterpillar are caught in the digital crossfire.

With contactless payments down and click-and-collect orders delayed, shoppers have been left confused, furious, and Colin-less.

Was it ransomware? A supply chain hit? Or just a catastrophic IT whoopsie? We’ve dug into the timeline, the fallout, and the very British drama that is a cake and a pig caught in cyber limbo.

Think your breakfast is safe? Think again. WK Kellogg Co.—yes, the cereal giant—just had employee data spilled thanks to a third-party software breach. Hackers from the Clop ransomware gang waltzed in via Cleo’s "secure" file transfer platform and helped themselves to names, addresses, and Social Security numbers.

It’s another textbook example of supply chain negligence dressed up as digital transformation.

If your business relies on vendors without grilling their security, you might as well start pouring milk on your firewall and calling it breakfast. Here's how it happened—and why it should scare the cereal out of you.

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Breach of the Month Club™, your monthly tour of reputational disaster.

March 2025 was a banner month for avoidable breaches, from Lloyds accidentally mailing out million-pound statements, to Jaguar Land Rover getting wrecked by leaked JIRA credentials.

Reform UK ignored GDPR completely, Morrisons got battered by a supplier breach, and 23andMe? Well, they lost your DNA and filed for bankruptcy.

We break it all down with just the right amount of sarcasm—and a reminder that no company is too big to fail at basic cyber hygiene.