A breach in December 2021 is still preventing the museum from accessing its artefact database.
A cyber attack is stopping a museum from accessing its artefact database more than a year after the initial breach.
Benefit payments, planning applications and house sales were all delayed when Gloucester City Council was hit by hackers in 2021. A council report has now revealed the Museum of Gloucester is still being affected by the cyber incident.Council officers first became aware their systems had been compromised on 20 December 2021.Malware, which is software that is specifically designed to disrupt, damage or gain unauthorised access to a computer, had made it onto their systems.
The harmful software was embedded in an email which had been sent to a council officer, according to theGloucester City Council has had to rebuild all of its servers as a result of the attack, which has been linked to Russian hackers.
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