Hospitals across Britain were paralysed last night after cyber hackers held the NHS to ransom in an unprecedented global attack. Countless operations were cancelled and patients were turned away as almost 40 hospital trusts (right) and hundreds of GP surgeries were locked out of their computer systems with a pop-up message (main). NHS staff pleaded with patients to stay away from A&E except in an emergency, and ambulances were diverted away from hospitals struggling to cope. Anthony Brett (bottom left) told last night how his long-awaited operation was cancelled because of the cyber attack as he waited to go into the operating theatre. Emma Simpson (top left) took her son, Sebastian, to Whipps Cross University Hospital in Leytonstone, east London, for an X-ray on his broken toe but was sent home because of the cyber attack as police (bottom right) attended hospitals. Experts say the cyber attack used code developed by the US National Security Agency (inset) which was leaked online by a mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers.
Hospitals across Britain were paralysed last night after cyber hackers held the NHS to ransom in an
- NHS hit by a major cyber attack and criminals have taken control of computers
- Operations have been cancelled as attack affects 37 NHS Trusts in England
- Hospitals can't do MRI and CT scans and warn patients not to come to A&E
- Some NHS Trusts have turned off their IT systems and are using pen and paper
- Russia worst affected country with government and phone network hit
- German railway services and Spanish utility companies also targeted
- It is believed there have been 57,000 infections across 99 countries
- Are you or do you know a patient affected by the attack? Email joseph.curtis@mailonline.co.uk
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