WH Smith has been hit by a cyber assault that has resulted in hackers having access to personal firm knowledge.

The stationary retailer and e book vendor, which has over 600 excessive avenue outlets within the UK, mentioned it has launched an investigation into the assault.

The retailer mentioned nevertheless, that buyer knowledge was not affected and that there was “no affect” on the corporate’s buying and selling actions.

“Our web site, buyer accounts and underlying buyer databases are on separate techniques which might be unaffected by this incident,” an announcement learn.

“WH Smith takes the problem of cyber safety extraordinarily critically and investigations into the incident are ongoing. We’re notifying all affected colleagues and have put measures in place to help them,” the corporate mentioned.

WH Smith is the newest firm to fall sufferer to cyber assaults as quite a lot of retailers and companies have reported hits.

In January, JD Sports activities reported that some 10 million clients might need had their addresses, cellphone numbers and e mail addresses stolen in a hacking incident.

Moreover, the Royal Mail additionally suffered extreme disruption to its worldwide export companies for weeks following the same incident.