Ealing Council Faces £1.1 Million Security Bill After Viral Attack

Written by
Desire Athow

04 September, 2009

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Our Comments

This could be considered as a striking case of incompetence by local government in maintaining effective IT security. Didn't they have security guidelines to prevent something like that from happening? Furthermore, the total bill of £500,000 seems to be very steep and we still don't understand why some computers had to be replaced.

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