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Why some cyber-attacks hit harder than others
The British Library has been hobbled for months by a cyber-attack and experts warn of similar damage ahead.
After the British Library refused to pay up, and following an online auction of stolen data, the hackers leaked the nearly 600 GB of private information on the dark web. From identifying affected IT systems to decrypting servers, uninstalling non-functional applications, blocking connections, disabling accounts, and restoring uninfected backups, each step can create bottlenecks. In the anomalous cases where recovery drags on into months or even years, one potential reason is that an organisation's "backups might have been encrypted and they haven't been able to restore them," Ms Goody comments.
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