Council computers hit by email virus

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email enquiries@shawscoaches.co.uk An email virus contaminated some Peterborough City Council computers and prevented staff from using them.

Theissue arose whenaMicrosoft Outlook email attachment, whichappearedtobean invoice, wasopened. Theincident in October 2016, which hasjust beenrevealed, did not see any data stolen according to a council spokeswoman.

She added: “The matter wascontainedwellinthissituation andthecouncil wasable to operate with little disruption, if any, to services.”

Thecouncilis proposing to spend £796,000 more on ICT in its 2017/18 budget, with some of the money spent on preventing future attacks.