{"id":20977,"date":"2025-11-26T14:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/two-london-councils-enact-emergency-plans-after-being-hit-by-cyber-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:37:18","slug":"two-london-councils-enact-emergency-plans-after-being-hit-by-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/two-london-councils-enact-emergency-plans-after-being-hit-by-cyber-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Two London councils enact emergency plans after being hit by cyber-attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster city council investigate whether data has been compromised<\/p>\n<p>At least two London councils have been hit by a cyber-attack and have invoked emergency plans as they investigate whether any data has been compromised.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City council, which share some IT infrastructure, said a number of systems had been affected across both authorities, including phone lines. The councils, which provide services for 360,000 residents, shut down several computerised systems as a precaution to limit further possible damage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/nov\/26\/london-councils-kensington-and-chelsea-westminster-cyber-attack-emergency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3efe85d074b8aa0d48292b9e2640452a4a49b510\/45_0_4800_3840\/master\/4800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fb895f3694d48a73da4e0250abe2eb0a\" title=\"Two London councils enact emergency plans after being hit by cyber-attack\" \/>Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster city council investigate whether data has been compromised<br \/>\nAt least two London councils have been hit by a cyber-attack and have invoked emergency plans as they investigate whether any data has been compromised.<br \/>\nThe Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City council, which share some IT infrastructure, said a number of systems had been affected across both authorities, including phone lines. The councils, which provide services for 360,000 residents, shut down several computerised systems as a precaution to limit further possible damage. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster city council investigate whether data has been compromised At least two London councils have been hit by a cyber-attack and have invoked emergency plans as they investigate whether any data has been compromised. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City council, which share some &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/two-london-councils-enact-emergency-plans-after-being-hit-by-cyber-attack\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two London councils enact emergency plans after being hit by cyber-attack<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}