Eurofins Scientific: Cyber-attack leads to backlog of 20,000 forensic samples
Since then, it has managed to reduce the backlog to 15,000.
The"overwhelming majority" of cases - which include specimens from suspects and evidence from crime scenes - will be cleared within two months, the police body added.
Eurofins carries out DNA testing, toxicology analysis, firearms testing and computer forensics for police forces across the UK.the global testing firm paid a ransom to the perpetratorsThe ransomware attack hit the company, which accounts for more than half of forensic science provision in the UK, on the first weekend in June.Messages sent by the perpetrators demand a payment in order to unlock the frozen accounts.
Forensic science work has been carried out by private firms and police laboratories in England and Wales since the closure of the government's Forensic Science Service in 2012.
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