CraigSimpson published East Surrey Hospital went into communications lockdown due to...

East Surrey and Epsom hospitals were forced into a communications lockdown after cyber attacks on the NHS swept across the country.Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH), which runs East Surrey Hospital, was forced to shut down all of its email communications due to the unprecedented "ransomware" attacks on Friday.Ransomware is a type of malicious software which encrypts files on a computer and tells the user they need to pay money to get them back. The attacks affected...

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