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Grovewell grows to four with Hamstreet from Wyevale
Recently sold Wyevale Garden Centre to be renamed
Wyevale Wellingborough to become Landscaping Centre
Plans to knock down another former Wyevale centre and build homes is blocked
Record Christmas week sets the scene
Dobbies grows sales following management shake up
King to step back from full-time Terra Firma role
First glimpse of industry leading campaign
Glee at Spring Fair exhibitors reveal plans for 2019 event
SBM Life Science markets Green Velvet grass seed brand
Dean’s Garden Centre celebrate their 50th Anniversary
RHS partners Heathcote & Ivory for beauty products
Horticultural company delivers Christmas trees to North West vibrant destination
International horticulture firms work to tackle plastic waste
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Robins rock the GTN Bestsellers chart
All time record for Christmas sales
Growing media sales drop off in November
Autumn plant sales equal with last year
Wild bird care sales suffer in mild winter
Help Perennial share some goodwill this Christmas
Millennials drive Plantpak Terrariums growth
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The best of last week's
Wyevale sells Enfield…who will be next? Now we have the answer
Breaking News: Wyevale Garden Centres agrees sale of Wellingborough and Wolds View
GCA reveals Christmas competition winners
Ransomware attack at Blue Diamond - Customer data not affected
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Perrywood wins gold in FreeFrom Eating Out Awards
Casual Dining expands its menu, with a record 220 exhibitors for 2019
Commercial Kitchen 2019 plans for biggest show yet
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Ransomware attack at Blue Diamond - Customer data not affected

On the 27th November Blue Diamond was the victim of a ransomware attack on their Head Office in Guernsey. The attack, known as RYUK, originated from North Korea and encrypted all the files and systems on their network, including their finance system.

 

As a result all the invoices and payments that were originally processed between the 20th and 27th November have had to be re-processed and that has meant the payment run that was scheduled for 30th November, is now re-scheduled for Friday, 7th December.

 

Managing Director Alan Roper told GTN Xtra: "Fortunately we were in the process of migrating all our computer software to the cloud where our data was being backed up.

 

"However our accounting software and data plus Group SharePoint data was still on the attacked server and all the data was encrypted by the ransomware and we were locked out. We were instructed to pay in bitcoins the sum of several hundred thousand pounds and each day we delayed the price goes up!

 

"Our cloud computing company have reviewed all the data and from Monday we will be accessing our data again via the cloud and our encrypted server will be decommissioned.

 

"Our Employee HR data was unaffected.

 

"All Customer loyalty EPOS data was also unaffected as it is held on another server off site and protected by the supplier."

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