Sepa continues to count cost of 2020 cyberattack, report says
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- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency fell victim to a sophisticated ransomware attack on Christmas Eve 2020.
A key environmental body is still working to rebuild its computer systems more than 12 months on from a cyberattack which crippled its network, with the full financial impact of the incident still unknown, a report has said.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) fell victim to a sophisticated ransomware attack on Christmas Eve 2020, with criminals demanding payment and the majority of the organisation’s data encrypted, stolen or deleted overnight.
The Auditor General for Scotland said in a report into the attack on Tuesday that Sepa bosses are still trying to calculate the cost of the cyberattack and accounting records have had to be recreated from bank statements, leaving auditors unable to fully examine its finances, including £42m of contract income.
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