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City of York Council Third-Party Breach (November 2018)

📅 2018-11-01 🏢 Appware
Primary Source ↗

Incident Details

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Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Compromise of third-party service provider / vendor relationship
Vendor / Product
Appware
Supply Chain Attack
✅ Confirmed third-party / vendor compromise

Timeline

  1. 2018-11-01 Breach occurred
  2. 2018-11-01 Publicly disclosed