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Hospitals across England have been hit by a huge cyber attack, plunging the NHS into chaos.

IT systems appear to have broken and emergency patients are having to be diverted to other areas, according to doctors.

The hack appears to be an example of ransomware – malicious hackers breaking into computers and only allowing their owners back in when they pay enough money.
A conversation circulating online saw one doctor saying "our hospital is down".

"We got a message saying your computers are now under their control and pay a certain amount of money," the messages read. "And now everything is gone.”

Affected NHS trusts said that IT systems had been shut down in order to protect them. That meant that all systems were offline and hospitals were unable to accept incoming calls.

East and North Hertfordshire NHS trust also said that it was asking people not to come to A&E, but instead to ring 111, or 999 in the case of an emergency.

“To ensure that all back-up processes and procedures were put in place quickly, the trust declared a major internal incident to make sure that patients already in the trust’s hospitals continued to receive the care they need," a spokesperson for the trust said.

Other trusts stressed that some of the problems were being caused by protective measures, rather than the cyber attack itself.

"Following a suspected national cyber attack we are taking all precautionary measures possible to protect our local NHS systems and services," NHS Merseyside said on Twitter.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nhs-cyber-attack-hospitals-hack-england-emergency-patients-divert-shut-down-a7732816.html


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What did they expect? When some NHS trust are still running Windows XP?
Cut back on IT services etc etc etc........ We all knew this was coming........
Blame the Russian's....

This is better yahoo

But it will not be flagged as crime



Anyway i hope data is not compromised

Lexusgs430:
What did they expect? When some NHS trust are still running Windows XP?
Cut back on IT services etc etc etc........ We all knew this was coming........
Blame the Russian's....

. It is scary when i got to know about the XP thing.

NSA has an arsenal of dirty programs to do dirty jobs. They were careless.

alienvirus:
. It is scary when i got to know about the XP thing.

NSA has an arsenal of dirty programs to do dirty jobs. They were careless.

XP or Windows 10, this ransomware might still have been equally as effective. But the NHS are not very data security conscious............
My experience with ransomware, just bin hard drive and get a new replacement........ (in a small environment)

Lexusgs430:


XP or Windows 10, this ransomware might still have been equally as effective. But the NHS are not very data security conscious............
My experience with ransomware, just bin hard drive and get a new replacement........ (in a small environment)

Yes. It might be equally effective but XP isn't supported any longer. Microsoft has provided patches for later OS(es). What will be the fate of XP users?

alienvirus:


Yes. It might be equally effective but XP isn't supported any longer. Microsoft has provided patches for later OS(es). What will be the fate of XP users?

Upgrade to Windows 10, if hardware components supports. If not ask computerboy to supply you a decent laptop.........

alienvirus:


Yes. It might be equally effective but XP isn't supported any longer. Microsoft has provided patches for later OS(es). What will be the fate of XP users?

it has been halted from further spread...