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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?

The widespread indifference to the British Library’s crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity, says Hetan Shah The head ...
Seeking Alpha

The British Library Selects Clarivate to Provide Library Services and Discovery Platforms

LONDON, Jan. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate Plc (CLVT) (NYSE:CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announces that the British Library has selected Clarivate to ...
The New York Times

Months After Cyberattack, British Library Crawls Back Online

Britain’s national library made the first major steps in its recovery process after a ransomware group took down its website and online catalog. By Jenny Gross Reporting from London The British ...
Bleeping Computer

British Library knocked offline by weekend cyberattack

The British Library has been hit by a major IT outage affecting its website and many of its services following a "cyber incident" that impacted its systems on Saturday, October 28. The ongoing outage ...
The New York Times

An Apparent Cyberattack Hushes the British Library

Libraries across Europe appear to be facing attacks from cybercriminals. At Britain’s national library, an “incident” is sending scholars back to an analog age. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London ...
Computer Weekly

British Library cyber attack explained: What you need to know

At the end of October 2023, the UK’s national library, the British Library, took to social media to inform users that it was experiencing disruption to its services following an IT outage. Over the ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Third-Party Breach and Missing MFA Contributed to British Library Cyber-Attack

The British Library ransomware attack was likely caused by the compromise of third-party credentials coupled with no multifactor authentication (MFA) in place to stop the attackers, despite previous ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

British Library Still Reeling After Major Cyber Incident

The UK’s national library is still suffering what it describes as a “major technology outage” due to a “cyber incident” it experienced over the weekend. The British Library explained on X (formerly ...
The New Yorker

The Disturbing Impact of the Cyberattack at the British Library

The outage became an incident. The National Cyber Security Centre, a branch of G.C.H.Q., the British equivalent of the National Security Agency, got involved. On November 20th, a hacking group called ...
Computer Weekly

Core British Library services to return for new academic year

British Library chief executive Roly Keating has said that the organisation is aiming to have some key services that remain offline after a cyber attack restored in time for the beginning of the new ...
Dark Reading

British, Toronto Libraries Struggle After Cyber Incidents

As the national library of the UK, the British Library has a collection of more than 150 million items, including books, films, and manuscripts. But the library is struggling with major outages ...