The UK-based company, which operates more than 1,500 stores globally, said it took systems offline ‘as a precautionary measure in order to protect data’ and to stop the spread of the malware. Its UK website is currently offline, displaying a ‘server error’ page.
Some stores are said to be manually processing customer requests. Other companies, like Tesco Bank, which rely on Travelex for some services, have also struggled during the outage.
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