But for the past 11 weeks, the British Library has been crippled by a major cyber-attack that shut down most of its services. Personal data of staff and readers, as its regular users are known, was stolen by the hackers and offered for sale on the dark web.
Readers have been subjected to difficulties and delays as staff have been forced to locate books, manuscripts and other items manually. Items held at the Boston Spa site about a quarter of its collection cannot be delivered to London. The Financial Times estimates that the attack will cost the library up to £7m.
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