Water regulator has handled more than 20,000 malicious emails in 2021

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Malicious emails peaked in March

Ofwat, the water services regulator for England and Wales, has received over 20,000 spam and phishing emails so far in 2021, according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request from thinktank Parli...

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