Record / attack outage · South Africa · 2026-10-13

Attack-related outage at an organization in South Africa (retail)

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The Foschini Group disclosed a cyberattack that disrupted IT systems at three of its British fashion brands, leaving some services unavailable. The attack impacted retail operations but no specific attacker has been identified or claimed responsibility.

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Country · sector
South Africa · retail
Dates
occurred 2026-10-13 · disclosed 2026-10-13 · published 2026-10-13
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An attack outage sits in these classes of the AI-security landscape. The companies below work on that class of problem. This is a taxonomy, not a claim that any of them would have changed this incident.

NetworkEndpoint
United States · est. 2025
NetworkAI posture (CSPM)
China · est. 2015 · raised $208M
AI posture (CSPM)
United States · est. 2025 · raised $3M
AI posture (CSPM)
United Kingdom · est. 2024 · raised $36.5M
Network
Israel · est. 2024 · raised $18M

Vendor data: AI Security Startups Map by Prompt Security (CC BY 4.0), synced daily. startups.prompt.security. Paid placements are labelled Sponsored; HeimWall, which runs this site, is labelled Operator. 453 companies in the directory.

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