The Glasgow City Council has issued a warning of good parking messages in the midst of a continuous cyber security incident affecting a number of online services.
Earlier this week, local authorities announced that the CGI Information and Communication Technology supplier had discovered “destructive activity” in servers run by a third party on Thursday, June 19.
The council announced that it has decided to carry out affected servers offline, while investigations are being carried out, which has disrupted a number of digital and online services.
These include viewing and commenting on planning and paying for punishment for parking or in contrast to the bus line, while some online memories and calendars are not available, such as bucket collecting programs.
On Friday evening, the council announced that “suspicious messages” had been sent to some people in the city and a large area, guiding recipients to pay outstanding parking fines online.
The report said the texts are “investigating as an urgency”, and details of the messages have helped them with the police and national police security teams.
Local authorities have made it clear that he would not use text messages to prosecute parking fines, and will never be sent by email or message with a person who does not request his bank’s information.
The council said that if anyone needs to pay the parking lot, he should do so by calling the number shown in the Penal Code (PCN).
In a statement earlier this week, a spokesman for the council said they could not confirm whether data were stolen in the incident.
Continued: “As a precaution, we work on the assumption that customer data for existing web forms may have been used at present, and we have contacted the information commission office.
“As long as we can determine if the data is stolen and this may be, we recommend that anyone who has used any of the damaged forms to be cautious about any phone calls claimed to be from the Glasgow City Council,” he said.
“The Glasgow City Council apologizes for the anxiety and discomfort that will undoubtedly cause.”
The council said they “cannot be completely discounted” that fraud messages include stolen data, but the “initial signs” are that this or the work of opportunistic or scampered criminals is wider.
“No financial systems have been affected and no details of bank accounts or credit cards/debt processed by those systems are compromised,” local officials added.
Scottish police are involved in an investigation into the cyber incident with the Council, the Scottish Cyber Coordination Center and the National Cyber Security Center.
This is the third time in recent months that a local official was hit by a cyber attack after targeting the Edinburgh and West Lotian councils in May.
Anyone who claims to have their own data is recommended to contact the Scottish police number 101 or call 0800 1670 623 at the Cyber accident phone number.
