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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Adam Forrest

Sunak warned government’s ageing IT systems are ‘accident waiting to happen’

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Rishi Sunak has been warned the government’s ageing computer systems are an “accident waiting to happen” – as ministers admitted they do not know the cost of patching up old IT.

Labour urged the Tory government to “come clean” on work going on to fix up systems from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s – warning they could be increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attack.

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