ICO confirms data breach probe as UK councils remain downed by cyberattack
Reading Time: < 1 minutesThree local councils in the United Kingdom continue to experience disruption to their online services, a week after confirming a cyberattack had knocked some systems offline.
The councils for Canterbury, Dover, and Thanet — all of which are based in the U.K. county of Kent and have a combined population of almost 500,000 residents — said last week that they were jointly investigating an unspecified ‘cyber incident’ that had disrupted council tax payments and online forms.
‘We have received breach report forms from three Kent Councils who form a three-way partnering service: Thanet District Council, Dover District Council and Canterbury County Council, and will be making enquiries,’ ICO spokesperson Rashana Vigerstaff said.
According to a Mastodon post from security researcher Kevin Beaumont, EKS’ Pulse Secure VPN server is also offline, suggesting a possible link to the widespread exploitation of two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s widely used corporate VPN appliance.
The incident continues to cause disruption for hundreds of thousands of individuals in Kent.
Canterbury and Thanet councils note in their statements that their downed IT services, which include online forms and planning applications, are not provided by Civica.
Ref: techcrunch
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