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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 30 October – 5 November 2023

IT Governance

British Library suffers “cyber incident”, online systems disrupted Date of breach: 28 October Breached organisation: The British Library Incident details: The British Library has suffered a “ cyber incident ”, affecting its “website, online systems and services, and some onsite services including Wi-Fi”.

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UK Suffers Third Highest Rate of Ransomware Attacks in the World

IT Governance

According to its analysis , 260 organisations in the UK fell victim to ransomware between January 2020 and June 2022, a figure that’s only exceeded by Canada (276) and – in a distant lead – the US (2,379). The other most vulnerable sectors were business services (23), construction (22), manufacturing (19) and transport (18).