Spain the United States and china. It is not clear if they are connected. Meanwhile the National Health service said the attack meant some hospitals were forced to divert emergencies. Ransomware appears to have been used in the attack, with hackers demanding payment to restore users access. Hugh pym reports. A Major Incident has been declared by nhs leaders in england, and hospitals like this one in colchester have been experiencing serious Computer Problems after a cyber attack. This is what some patients told us the gentleman just inside the door said that all the computers have gone down, and they are not sure whether the doctors can see you for whatever reason. If it is x rays, or breakages, or what have you, they will send you home. It has happened before at this Hospital Trust covering North Lincolnshire and goole, it systems were closed for three days as the result of a cyber attack last autumn. Hundreds of operations and patient appointments were postponed, people were told to
Suggested that there might be take recordings of conversations. James comey had been leading an inquiry into possible collusion between trump Election Officials and russia. He was fired on tuesday. Now the president has tweeted that is a summary of the news. Newsday is coming up later, actually, it isnt, we say that, it is just actually, it isnt, we say that, it isjust a bbc actually, it isnt, we say that, it is just a bbc world. Now it is time for newsnight. A global cyber attack has disrupted nhs hospitals and gp surgeries in england and scotland resulting in cancelled operations and it shutdown. It replicates itself on one computer to the next and theres really no stopping it. It spreads itself like a plague. So who and what is behind the attack and can they be stopped . Tonight a former hacker, a former gchq boss, and the chair of the gps council are here. Whats it like for one of the rising young stars of the labour party, whos not a corbyn fan, selling the manifesto on the doorst
Europes police agency, europol, says the global cyber attack has hit more than 200 thousand victims in more than 150 countries. Cyber Security Experts are now warning of a possible new wave of Malware Attacks around the world when people return to work after the weekend. Europol says fridays cyber attack was unprecedented in its scale. Karl riley reports. Europol says it has seen how ra nsomwa re europol says it has seen how ransomware has europol says it has seen how ra nsomwa re has become europol says it has seen how ransomware has become a major Criminal Problem in the last two yea rs Criminal Problem in the last two years but they have never seen anything on this scale. Ransomware combined with the Worm Application which means infected computers passed on to others on its network. The attack was indiscriminate in nature, designed to affect as many people and as Many Companies as possible on a global basis. The Health Care Sector is vulnerable because Health Trusts post a lot of Se