Lush as with other retailers have been attacked by hackers trying to get hold of their customers credit card details.

On http://www.lush.co.uk/ customers are welcomed by this message:
We are very sorry to confirm that our website has been the victim of hackers.

24 hour security monitoring has shown us that we were still being targeted and there were continuing attempts to re-enter.

We refuse to put our customers at risk of another entry – so have decided to completely retire this version of our website.

For complete peace of mind, we would like all customers that placed ONLINE orders with us between 4th Oct 2010 and today, 20th Jan 2011, to contact their banks for advice as their card details may have been compromised.

Hacking is a serious issue of our era but we feel that Lush management team has over reacted and destroyed their online reputation and their google indexation. Google have stopped crawling the old content on the site, the site will quickly lose its ranking and when finally will be up. Lush.co.uk will have no traffic and be forgotten by all.

Many details of the incident still remain unclear, such as how many card details may have been compromised and how the hackers gained entry to the cosmetics firm’s back-end systems.

Until Lush can clear up the security issues with its site, it has chosen to use PayPal as a means of taking payments for any purchases made in the near future. This is a temporary solution and it hopes to get its own payment system up and running as soon as possible, to ensure that safe shopping online is once again available to its customers.