Blog Details

Cyber Crime Lawyer in Delhi

Cyber Crime Lawyer in Delhi.

 

Hackney Council is to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds more than planned as part of work to recover from a cyber attack in 2020.

Councillor Robert Chapman said the borough’s “financial predicament remains serious”, with the overall total overspend for the accounting year at about £37m.

The council’s accounts show that £344,000 has gone towards hiring more agency staff, partly to manage a backlog caused by the attack.

A further £413,000 is being spent on IT consultants with “cybersecurity knowledge”.

Nefarious actors’

In January 2021 a criminal group posted personal details of council staff and residents on the dark web following a ransomware attack three months earlier.

In July of this year, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) rebuked the local authority for a “lack of proper security and processes to protect personal data”.

Stephen Bonner, deputy commissioner at the ICO, called the breach a “clear and avoidable error” by the council, after the regulator found “simple mistakes like having dormant accounts where the username and password are the same”.

“Whilst nefarious actors may always exist, the council failed to effectively implement sufficient measures that could have better protected their systems and data from cyber-attacks,” Mr Bonner added.

“Time and time again, we see breaches that would not have happened if such mistakes were avoided,” he said.

Responding at the time, Hackney Council disagreed with the ICO’s findings, saying it had not been in breach of its security obligations.

In 2023, the council announced it would purchase a new “off-the-shelf” housing system to deal with ongoing tech problems following the hack.

The fallout from the cyber-attack has exacerbated the “challenging financial environment” for the borough, council reports state, especially due to a real-terms fall in government funding of almost 40% since 2010.

Add Comment

Categories

Decision Are A Professional Attorney & Lawyers Services Provider Institutions. Suitable For Law Firm, Injury Law, Traffic Ticket Attorney, Legacy And More.

Contact Info

+(002) 0121-2843-661
+(002) 0106-8710-594
AR-Coder@arcoder.com
Support@arcoder.com
Menouf City , El-Menoufia, Egypt.
Shibin El-Kom , El-Menoufia, Egypt.

Follow Us

As per the rules of the Bar Council of India, we are not permitted to solicit work and advertise. By accessing and using this website, the user acknowledges the following:
The user wishes to gain more information about us for his/her own information and use;
There has been no advertisement, solicitation, invitation or inducement of any sort whatsoever from us or any of our members to solicit any work through this website;
The information about us is provided to the user only on his/her specific request and any information obtained or materials downloaded from this website is completely at the user’s volition and any transmission, receipt or use of this site would not create any lawyer-client relationship.
The information provided herein should not be interpreted as legal advice, for which the user must make independent inquiries.
Whilst every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the contents of this website, Chambers of Daksha Kumar, disclaims all liability arising from reliance placed by the user or any other third party on the information contained or provided under this website.
All disputes, if any, relating to this website are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of courts in New Delhi, India only.
×