Foreign cyber attackers tried to hack police and council computers immediately after the Salisbury novichok poisonings. Up to 90,000 attacks a day were launched in the days after the assassination attempt after Sergei Skripal was targeted by the nerve agent in March 2018. Wiltshire Council has revealed it was subjected to the ‘well coordinated’ hack which saw staff locked out of email and forced them to stop wearing Bluetooth devices such as Fitbit bracelets in meetings.
