London hospitals face days of disruption after ransomware attack on supply chain partner

Several large hospitals in Britain’s capital London face days and possibly weeks of disruption after a partner organization was compromised by a potent ransomware attack.

The attack on June 3 targeted medical diagnostics company Synnovis, causing huge disruption to pathology and testing, an essential service that hospitals depend on for routine diagnostics.

Specifically, the cyberattack caused the connection between the hospitals and the company’s servers to be disconnected, taking down access to essential data.

The incident has badly affected two …

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