Leicester City Council shuts systems after cyber attack
Leicester City Council took IT and phones offline after an INC Ransom attack, disrupting critical services including social care and homelessness support for weeks.
- Service
- Leicester City Council
- Date
- 7 March 2024
- Cause
- Cyberattack
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- UK
- Source
- The Record ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Leicester City Council shuts systems after cyber attack”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 7 Mar 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-03-07-leicester-city-council-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: The Record, https://therecord.media/leicester-uk-cyberattack-local-council.
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