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ICO confirms data breach probe as UK councils remain downed by cyberattack
The UK data regulator has confirmed it has received a breach report from three Kent councils downed by ongoing cyberattack
However, the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office told TechCrunch on Friday that the data regulator has received a breach report from the three councils. EKS was set up by Canterbury, Dover, and Thanet in 2011 before it was outsourced to Civica in 2018, and is used by all three councils to deliver a number of IT and HR services including payments, benefits, and debt recovery. 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.
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