Hackers Access Legacy Systems in Oxford City Council Cyberattack

Personal data of former and current council workers, including election staff, may have been accessed by hackers.

Oxford City Council in the United Kingdom (UK) is notifying current and former employees that their personal information was likely compromised in a recent cyberattack.

The incident, the council says, occurred over the weekend of June 7 and 8, when it detected suspicious activity within its network.

“Our automated security systems kicked in, removed the presence and minimized the access the attackers had to our systems and databases,” the council said in an incident notice.

Oxford City Council took down core systems to perform security checks, which resulted in service disruptions over the past week.

Most of the impacted systems have been restored and the remaining ones should be back online this week, it says.

The attack, the council says, resulted in threat actors accessing historic data on legacy systems, and in certain ...