British Library Says Ransomware Attack Behind Weeks-Long Outage
- Website, digital catalog have been offline since October
- Some data has been leaked from HR files, the library says
Visitors at The British Library in London.
Photographer: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesThe British Library said a ransomware attack by a criminal group is the cause of a technology outage which has disabled its website and other computer systems for weeks.
Some data has been leaked “from files relating to our internal HR information,” the library said in a statement posted on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The organization announced an investigation into the outage on Oct. 31 and said it had contacted police and enlisted the help of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre. The library said it suspected a cyber attack earlier this month.