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Isaac Newton sculpture outside the British library Pic: Sampajano Anizza/Shutterstock. What makes the British Library an intriguing victim is the sort of work it does.
The Rhysida ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the British Library in October, which has caused a major ongoing IT outage. A leak of HR documents stolen from the British Library was also confirmed today by the library's press office, which warned users to reset their passwords as a precautionary measure.
The Rhysida ransomware group says it's behind the highly disruptive October cyberattack on the British Library, leaking a snippet of stolen data in the process. The Register approached the British Library for comment but it did not reply.
The British Library confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind a major outage that is still affecting services across several locations. Although the library confirmed this was caused by ransomware, it still has to link the attack to a specific operation and reveal what employee and/or user personal or financial information was accessed or stolen from its systems, if any.
The British Library has been hit by a major IT outage affecting its website and many of its services following a "Cyber incident" that impacted its systems on Saturday, October 28. The ongoing outage also affects other services, including our phone lines and on-site library services in London and Yorkshire.
Internet, phone lines, websites, and more went down on Saturday morning The British Library has confirmed to The Register that a "cyber incident" is the cause of a "major" multi-day IT outage.…
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