Security News > 2022 > August > UK NHS suffers outage after cyberattack on managed service provider
United Kingdom's National Health Service 111 emergency services are affected by a significant and ongoing outage triggered by a cyberattack that hit the systems of British managed service provider Advanced.
Advanced's Adastra client patient management solution, which is used by 85% of NHS 111 services, has been hit by a major outage together with several other services provided by the MSP, according to a status page.
"There is a major outage of a computer system that is used to refer patients from NHS 111 Wales to out-of-hours GP providers," the Welsh Ambulance Services said today.
"This system is used by Local Health Boards to coordinate these services for patients. The ongoing outage is significant and has been far-reaching, impacting each of the four nations in the UK.".
The UK public is advised to access the NHS 111 emergency services using the online platform until the incident is resolved.
While public access to Advanced's status page is now blocked by a login form allowing access only to customers and employees, Advanced's Chief Operating Officer Simon Short confirmed that the incident was caused by a cyberattack detected on Thursday morning.