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to the bbc news. our main story this afternoon is still developing. a number of hospitals have been hit by a large scale cyber attack. hospitals across england appear to have been simultaneously hit by a computer virus, causing their it systems to fail and leading to many diverting emergency patients. among those affected are barts trust in london, the lister hospital in stevenage, the nhs in blackburn, blackpool, york and cumberland infirmary in carlisle. just hearing from the nhs in wales have not been affected. they have their own it infrastructure. so this does seem to be an issue from nhs england. we are just getting a statement in from nhs digitaljust saying, we are statement in from nhs digitaljust saying, we are aware statement in from nhs digitaljust saying, we are aware of cyber security incident, we are working on a response. that is nhs digital, the division of the nhs which handles technology issues. let s get more on this now with our technology correspond ....
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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 ....
europe s 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 friday s 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 trust ....
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