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Cyber attack hits council computer systems at Comhairle nan Eilean Siar #20099

Closed swidup closed 2 weeks ago

swidup commented 12 months ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-67355465

etgifford commented 2 months ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6pyv2nqle5o https://therecord.media/ransomware-attack-costing-scottish-commune-million

etgifford commented 2 months ago

JSON fa6be9a4-4057-4940-aadb-7357833236cb Western Isles Local Authority: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Stornoway, Scotland, 326 employees, NAICS 921190 Other Government General Support. Nov 7, 2023 data on operational and backup servers cannot be accessed. Discovered when the website was reported to be offline. No evidence of data extraction. Affected phone systems, email, benefit payments, children and adult social care services, tax billing, and tax payments. Cost to recover: $6245000 estimate (500K Pounds)