Britain’s NHS reels from a ransomware attack
An assault on a health-care provider prompts an urgent call for blood donations
The threat of ransomware, the process of stealing or encrypting data for the purposes of extortion, is increasingly obvious. In Britain in recent years local councils, water companies and a supplier to the Ministry of Defence have all been attacked by criminal gangs. Last year the website and other online services at the British Library went down as a result of a cyber-attack; the outage is still not fixed. On June 3rd ransomware came for the National Health Service (NHS).
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Another wake-up call”
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