Hospitals declared a critical incident after the attack and have cancellation operations, tests and have been unable to perform blood transfusions.
A Russian group of cyber criminals is behind the ransomware attack affecting major London hospitals, an expert has said
Memos to NHS staff at King’s College Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ and primary care services in the capital said there had been a “major IT incident”. He said it is “unlikely” the Russian hackers would have known they would cause such serious primary healthcare disruption when they set out to do the attack.
He said the Government has a policy of not paying but the company would be free to pay the ransom if it chose to. Some procedures and operations at the hospitals have been cancelled or have been redirected to other NHS providers as hospital bosses establish what work can be carried out safely.
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