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Cyberattack targeting UK councils causes online disruption
Canterbury, Dover and Thanet Councils have taken some public-facing systems offline due to an ongoing cybersecurity issue.
When reached by email, Robert Davis, Andy Steele and Marvia Roach, spokespeople for Canterbury, Dover and Thanet councils respectively, told TechCrunch that as a result of the ongoing cybersecurity incident — the nature of which remains unknown — parts of the councils’ websites “may not work as intended.” TechCrunch understands that the ongoing disruption is linked to an outage impacting EK Services, an organization set up by Canterbury, Dover and Thanet in 2011. All three councils outsource IT and human resources services, such as call center, benefits, and debt recovery, to EKS, whose website is inaccessible at the time of writing.
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