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NHS England hit by 'cyber attack'
Source: BBC
NHS services across England have been hit by IT failure, believed to be caused by a large-scale cyber attack.
Trusts and hospitals in London, Blackburn, Nottingham, Cumbria and Hertfordshire have been affected.
GPs are resorting to using pen and paper, according to newspaper the Blackpool Gazette, and phone and IT systems have been shut down.
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NHS England hit by 'cyber attack' (Original Post)
n2doc
May 2017
OP
No. Putin vs Labour Party; they want to renationalize several sectors. Hence Putin attacks NHS. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2017
#9
Zoonart
(11,837 posts)1. Coming soon to a nation near you.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)2. Message deleted by DU the Administrators
JudyM
(29,206 posts)3. Hospitals, ugh.
The spectre of what the world could be coming to...
muriel_volestrangler
(101,271 posts)4. Demanding money
Hospitals across England have been hit by a large-scale cyber-attack, the NHS has confirmed, which has locked staff out of their computers and forced many trusts to divert emergency patients.
The IT systems of NHS sites across the country appear to have been simultaneously hit, with a pop-up message demanding a ransom in exchange for access to the PCs. NHS England said it was aware of the problem and would release more details soon.
...
In a message to a Guardian reporter, one NHS IT worker said: At approximately 12.30pm we experienced a problem with our email servers crashing. Following this a lot of our clinical systems and patient systems were reported to have gone down.
A bitcoin virus pop-up message had been introduced on to the network asking users to pay $300 to be able to access their PCs. You cannot get past this screen. This followed with an internal major incident being declared and advised all trust staff to shut down all PCs in the trust and await further instructions.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/12/hospitals-across-england-hit-by-large-scale-cyber-attack
The IT systems of NHS sites across the country appear to have been simultaneously hit, with a pop-up message demanding a ransom in exchange for access to the PCs. NHS England said it was aware of the problem and would release more details soon.
...
In a message to a Guardian reporter, one NHS IT worker said: At approximately 12.30pm we experienced a problem with our email servers crashing. Following this a lot of our clinical systems and patient systems were reported to have gone down.
A bitcoin virus pop-up message had been introduced on to the network asking users to pay $300 to be able to access their PCs. You cannot get past this screen. This followed with an internal major incident being declared and advised all trust staff to shut down all PCs in the trust and await further instructions.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/12/hospitals-across-england-hit-by-large-scale-cyber-attack
raccoon
(31,105 posts)5. Probably conservatives in the US. They HATE the idea of NHS. :silly: nt
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,966 posts)9. No. Putin vs Labour Party; they want to renationalize several sectors. Hence Putin attacks NHS. nt
dalton99a
(81,406 posts)6. Another dry run exercise at the Vladimir Putin Institute of Hacking
LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)7. Spain also
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/telefonica-tells-employees-to-shut-down-computers-amid-massive-ransomware-outbreak/
England:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/12/hospitals-across-england-hit-by-large-scale-cyber-attack?CMP=fb_gu
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/12/hospitals-across-england-hit-by-large-scale-cyber-attack#img-1
England:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/12/hospitals-across-england-hit-by-large-scale-cyber-attack?CMP=fb_gu
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/12/hospitals-across-england-hit-by-large-scale-cyber-attack#img-1
muriel_volestrangler
(101,271 posts)8. Ransomware attacks reported worldwide
A massive ransomware campaign appears to have attacked a number of organisations around the world.
Screenshots of a well known program that locks computers and demands a payment in Bitcoin have been shared online by parties claiming to be affected.
There have been reports of infections in the UK, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Vietnam, Kazakhstan and Taiwan.
...
One cyber-security researcher tweeted that he had detected 36,000 instances of the ransomware, called WannaCry and variants of that name.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39901382
Screenshots of a well known program that locks computers and demands a payment in Bitcoin have been shared online by parties claiming to be affected.
There have been reports of infections in the UK, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Vietnam, Kazakhstan and Taiwan.
...
One cyber-security researcher tweeted that he had detected 36,000 instances of the ransomware, called WannaCry and variants of that name.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39901382
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)10. uggg ransomeware that takes bitcoin payment. bitcon miner Russians in action.