U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and UKs National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released a Joint Technical Alert about malicious cyber activity. Lincolnshire Local Authority fell foul of a Ransomware attack which in the hands of a Third Party Outsource Provider. Local Councils across the UK faced as many as 263 million cyber-attacks in the first half of 2019, averaging around 800 cyber attacks every hour (Freedom of information (FOI) requests revealed).”]
Source: https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/articles/local-authorities-is-insecurity-in-their-dna/