Edinburgh and Oxford councils, the Met Police and the Office for Budget Responsibility were unavailable; Bristol, Lambeth and Barnet council sites showed errors

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A3 Echoed●●●○○○ · Event · verdict: holds in part

LBC and Insurance Business carry Edinburgh and Oxford councils and the Met Police unavailable and errors on Bristol, Lambeth and Barnet, in near-identical wording that points to one origin (A3). Neither cited source mentions the Office for Budget Responsibility; only the uncited EADT (PA) says the OBR "had to take down its website".

Open tickets: Contradiction-5, Evidence-2, Finding-106, Finding-31.

Graded in Run-1, resting on captures up to 2026-10-22 11:29 UTC. The scale is on the fact-check page.

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1. 2026-10-21LBC publishes Websites taken offline as ‘critical’ security flaw hits Met Police, Traitors and government sites | LBC
2. 2026-10-21Insurance Business publishes UK councils and Met Police among sites pulled offline after NCSC alert | Insurance Business
3. 2026-10-22 11:22 UTCSaved into the evidence vault: Insurance Business
4. 2026-10-22 11:29 UTCSaved into the evidence vault: LBC
5. 2026-10-22Enters this site as reported in v0.2.0 (reconstructed from git)

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Edinburgh and Oxford councils, the Met Police and the Office for Budget Responsibility were unavailable; Bristol, Lambeth and Barnet council sites showed errors
Who says it: LBC; Insurance Business
Status: reported
Topic: impact
Sources: lbc-uk-websites-offline, insurancebusiness-uk-councils-met