Thirty-two government services are taken offline over a critical PHP cyber flaw as No 10 refuses to name them
Computer hackers, as Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warned attackers were already probing the PHP vulnerability in the ten hours before its public disclosure, with around 70% of websites thought to be affected.
Four more services are only partially working, tech minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra told the House of Lords. The Office for Budget Responsibility website was among those pulled, days before the Budget. Downing Street insists nothing was hacked and says listing the affected services is not 'standard practice'. The National Cyber Security Centre was briefed on the flaw by OpenAI last week.
Prof Alan Woodward says attackers could 'do whatever they like' on about 30 million websites.
Amazon was targeted by hackers before the warning's embargo was lifted.
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting warned of 'increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks' on Britain.
