Salford housing register offline after cyber breach
A cyber attack took Salford City Council's housing register offline for weeks, cutting off around 5,200 applicants.
- Service
- Salford City Council
- Date
- 2 August 2024
- Cause
- Cyberattack
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- minor
- Region
- UK
- Source
- CM-Alliance ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Salford housing register offline after cyber breach”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 2 Aug 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-08-02-salford-city-council-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: CM-Alliance, https://www.cm-alliance.com/cybersecurity-blog/august-2024-biggest-cyber-attacks-data-breaches-ransomware-attacks.
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