Financial Times | October 27, 2017:
Department warned of risks to IT systems a year before WannaCry assault.
The scale of the cyber attack on the National Health Service was far larger than previously appreciated, according to a report by the spending watchdog that lays bare the health service’s poor preparation to cope with such a threat.
The report also discloses that every NHS trust whose cyber security arrangements were checked before the breach had failed the inspection.
The WannaCry virus was one of the most devastating global cyber attacks to date as hackers used secret cyberweapons stolen from the US National Security Agency to target organisations and companies in Europe and the rest of the world.
NHS disruption was much larger than first thought, with more than one in three trusts and at least 595 GP practices affected and 19,000 appointments cancelled, including 100 that were cancer-related, according to the auditors.
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