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Bishop of Manchester falls victim to cyber crime

The Bishop of Manchester has been hit by a computer virus which has left him unable to contact his flock via email for several days, it has been reported.

The Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch is just one of a number of clergymen to have been hit by an online attack, with technicians working for the Church of England having revealed that the virus has severely corrupted its central systems.

As such, the Manchester bishop has been unable to send and receive messages for around ten days, while it is also likely that a large number of the estimated 6,000 emails he sent over the past ten months never reached the intended recipient.

Confirming the scale of the security breach, a spokesman for the church told the Manchester Evening News: "The diocese receives about a million spam messages a year along with numerous virus attacks.

"The fact that one virus got through and the effect it has had on our systems vindicates the decision to move our IT provision."

Just recently, it was revealed that justice secretary Jack Straw was targeted by Nigerian fraudsters who bombarded the politician with spam.

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