News NHS cyber-attack: GPs and hospitals hit by ransomware

NHS services across England and Scotland have been hit by a large-scale cyber-attack that has disrupted hospital and GP appointments.

The prime minister said the incident was part of an untargeted wider attack affecting organisations globally.

Some hospitals and GPs have been unable to access patient data, after their computers were locked by a ransomware program demanding a payment worth £230.

But there is no evidence patient data has been compromised, NHS Digital said.

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Any current supported OS is already quite secure if kept updated.

If the user is then just a bit educated and never opens attachments or clicks on links in email without knowing what he/she is doing, you should be pretty safe...

 

Yea, though in this case no user action was needed. Just an unpatched Windows OS. Seems most where Windows 7x64 PC's : WannaCry ransomware hit Windows 7 worse than Windows XP, analysis suggests