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Data theft fears after cyber attack on Glasgow City Council

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Glasgow City Council has been struck by a cyber attack.

The local authority said it was targeted on Thursday and customer data may have been stolen.

A number of online services, including paying penalty charges and reporting school absences, are unavailable due to the council taking servers offline.

However a spokesperson said no financial systems had been affected by the breach.

The city council said it was “operating on the presumption that customer data related to the currently unavailable web forms may have been exfiltrated”.

It advised anyone contacted by someone claiming to be from the city council to be cautious.

A number of other public bodies have suffered similar breaches in recent months, including NHS Dumfries and Galloway.


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