An attack with « significant » consequences occured in March 2021, former senior officer reveals.
The UK’s Defence Academy suffered a cyberattack with “significant” impact in March 2021, a retired senior officer has revealed. Speaking to Sky News, Air Marshal Edward Stringer, who retired from the position several months later, claimed the attack was big enough to motivate the organization to speed up its plans on restructuring its entire network. « The consequences for the operations were significant, but then manageable, » Stringer said, adding that they were manageable only because the employees worked “incredibly hard” to find workarounds. IT staff had to « find back-up ways to use regular internet, etc, to keep the courses going, which we managed to do – but not as slickly as previously, that would be fair.
