British Library slowly resuming service after cyber-attack

"The time it is taking us to bring our services back is an exact measure of the destructiveness of the original attack, which directly targeted our core computing infrastructure," wrote Roly Keating, the library's chief executive, in July.

In response to a freedom of information (FOI) request by the charity sector company Civil Society Media in June, the estimated loss to 31 March is £1.6m, a library spokesperson said.

An anonymous UK curator, who studies at the library, tells The Art Newspaper that "much has improved but it still feels like a rather patchy service at times."

The library has said that it 'has not made any payment to the criminal actors responsible for the attack, nor engaged with them in any way'.

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