‘People have had to move house’: Inside the British Library, two years on from devastating cyber attack

The report recounts an October 2023 Rhysida ransomware attack on the British Library that disabled digital systems, led to the leak of staff personal data (reported as 573 GB comprising 490,191 files) on a dark-web leak site, and continues to cause service outages and operational disruption two years later; a £600,000 ransom demand was reported but the library's payment/negotiation status was not made public.