The British Library is facing a major outage that impacts the website and many of its services following a cyber attack that took place on October 28.
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world’s largest libraries. It is located in London and houses a collection of over 150 million items, including books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, music recordings, and films.
The outage also affects some on-site services, including the public Wi-Fi.
The library launched an investigation into the incident with the help of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and other experts.
“We’re experiencing a major technology outage as a result of a cyber incident. This is affecting our website, online systems and services, and some onsite services including public Wi-Fi. We’re currently investigating the incident with @NCSC and other specialists.” reads a tweet published by the library.
The library announced that its buildings remain fully open and the following services are available onsite:
The library did not disclose technical details about the attack, at this time it is unclear if threat actors had access to the information of its employees and customers.
On October 28 another library, the Toronto Library announced they were addressing a cyber security incident.
Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon
(SecurityAffairs – hacking, British Library)
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware…
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles…
Technology firm F5 patches a high-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in BIG-IP and a medium-severity…
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Veeam Backup and Replication vulnerability to its Known…
North Korea-linked group APT37 exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability in a supply chain attack.…
Omni Family Health disclosed a data breach affecting nearly 470,000 current and former patients and…
This website uses cookies.