Cyber-attack in Leicester disrupts housing support and street lights
Leicester in the UK was hit by a cyber-attack that disrupted housing support and street lighting. Homeless people missed out on housing allocations, and street lights stayed switched on continuously. The attack was identified as a ransomware attack.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Leicester City Council
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Disrupted housing allocations for homeless people and street lights left on round the clock
- Cause / method
- Ransomware attack
- Location
- United Kingdom
Timeline
- The cyber-attack on Leicester was disclosed.
- It came to light that homeless people had missed out on housing allocations because of the cyber-attack.
- A problem with Leicester's street lights staying on continuously in the wake of the cyber-attack came to light.
- The street lighting malfunction was attributed to the effects of a ransomware attack.
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