As UK councils sent most of their employees to work from home during the pandemic, the number of cyberattacks against the institutions spiked, a new report has claimed. Technology solutions provider Insight sent a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to 47 councils in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, discovering an average rise in cyberattacks of 213 percent in the period from March 2020 compared to the year before.

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