Cyberattack affected 80 stores of French supermarket chain Co-Operative U

PARIS, Oct 13 (Reuters) – French supermarket chain Co-Operative ​U had ‌80 of its stores – out of an overall group ‌total ​of 2,000 – ⁠affected by ⁠this week’s cyberattack, said company head Dominique Schelcher on ​Tuesday.

“It affected a minority ⁠of our ⁠stores,” he ​told RTL radio.

He ​said he could not ‌precisely quantify the financial impact, but added ⁠that in a smaller store it would be ⁠several ‌tens of ⁠thousands of ​euros, ‌while in a ​bigger ⁠hypermarket the impact could be up to €200,000 ($223,480).

($1 = 0.8949 euros)

(Reporting by Sudip ​Kar-Gupta)