Co-op boss says sorry to 6.5m people who had data stolen in hack
"I'm devastated that information was taken. I'm also devastated by the impact that it took on our colleagues as well as they tried to contain all of this," Shirine Khoury-Haq told BBC Breakfast in her first public interview since the hack.
"There was no financial data, no transaction data but it was names and addresses and contact information that was lost," she added.
Ms Khoury-Haq said she would not step down from her role, but said she was "incredibly sorry" for the attack.
Co-op was one of three retailers, alongside Marks and Spencer (M&S) and Harrods who were victims of cyber-attacks in spring this year.
Co-op announced on 30 April that it had been hacked, initially saying it would only have a "small impact" on its call centre and back office.
But days later, after being contacted by the alleged hackers, BBC News revealed that customer and employee data had been accessed.
Co-op then admitted the criminals had "accessed data relating to a significant number of our current and past members".
BBC News later discovered from the alleged attackers that the company disconnected the internet from IT networks in the nick of time to stop the hackers from deploying ransomware and so causing even more disruption.
M&S also had customer data stolen, and is still getting its systems back to normal after huge disruption which has cost it millions of pounds.
Last week, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said four people had been arrested in connection with the hacks on Co-op and M&S
These were a 20-year-old woman was arrested in Staffordshire, and three males - aged between 17 and 19 - were detained in London and the West Midlands.
They were apprehended on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences, blackmail, money laundering and participating in the activities of an organised crime group.
Additional reporting by Charlotte Edwards.
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