Child protection among critical services affected by cyberattack on English council

Leicester City Council has announced that several of the local authority’s critical services are going to be unavailable until at least the middle of this week following a cyberattack. The council shut down its IT systems as a precaution last Thursday while an unspecified cyber incident was being investigated. After working over the weekend, the

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