Six months after it suffered a cyberattack to its education IT network West Lothian council remains unable to quantify what the eventual costs will be.

Councillors were told this week that a live investigation remains ongoing though the IT system recovery phase is now complete.

Pauline Orr, an SNP councillor asked if there was an update at this month’s meeting of the Governance and Risk Committee.

Councillor Orr asked officers: “ Do we know how much the recent cyberattack has cost the council to bring everything back on-line?”

Committee chair, Conservative Damian Doran-Timson replied: “Just before we go further. That is still a live criminal investigation so I don’t think it would be appropriate to talk about the actions that have taken place, but as to the costs we can ask Lesley He

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