Response 3891324

Response to request for information

Reference

3891324

Response date

20 January 2026

Request

The number of cyber attacks your local authority has been subject to for each of the past ten years, beginning with 2015.

Response

Like many other councils, our firewalls are subjected to daily traffic from multiple countries. However, to date, we have not experienced a successful breach.

We have had two phishing incidents in the past year, both of which were detected and stopped at the user level and were dealt with appropriately.