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3 months agoA shadowy hacker group brought the British Library to its knees. Is there any way to stop them? | Lamorna Ash
The cyber-attack on the British Library was likely carried out by the Russian hacker gang Rhysida, who had been infiltrating the library's systems for months before the attack.
The hackers demanded a ransom of 20 bitcoins (about 600,000) for privileged access to stolen personal information, but when the library refused to pay, the hackers published close to 500,000 files of stolen data. [ more ]