the nhs is still using old operating systems. 90% of hospitals are using a system which wind was not greeted new security for 30 years. it is a story of underinvestment and it infrastructure and the powers we give to the gchq and the nsa to build weapons like this and with any other weapon, once they are built, they can be bought and sold by anyone. the daily mail sent some hackers cripple the nhs. operations we re hackers cripple the nhs. operations were cancelled, ambulances had to be diverted, but it seems like a lot of staff responded incredibly fast to try to mitigate and reduce a lot of the impact it could have had. that is exactly it. there seems to have been a plan, a good contingency plan in place and it seems to have worked. i think what is not quite clear, it is not even clear to the government yet, for and what of the knock on effects are into next week. i think people will be very tolerant and patient over the course of the weekend, but we will have to see when w
the nhs has fallen victim to a major cyber attack. 39 hospital trusts and gp s in scotland and across england have had to cancel routine operations, send patients home and divert ambulances. the nhs says its services have been targeted by a ransomware attack, which means nhs data is, in effect, being held hostage by hackers demanding money. dozens of other facilities have shut down their email and computer systems as a precaution. the scale of the cyber attack on the nhs is unprecedented. it s been declared a major national incident disrupting hospitals and trusts from glasgow, dumfries and ca rlisle, blackpool and york, to some of the big teaching hospitals in london, and services in the south of england. the prime minister says the incident is part of a wider attack affecting organisations around the world. it s thought 7a countries have been affected. our health editor hugh pym reports. there was a serious disruptions in some part of the nhs today with signs warning of sig