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Sixty seconds on . . . the WannaCry cyberattack

BMJ 2018; 361 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k1750 (Published 24 April 2018) Cite this as: BMJ 2018;361:k1750
  1. Susan Mayor
  1. London, UK

Crocodile tears?

Although the NHS has learnt lessons from the WannaCry cyberattack on 12 May 2017, trusts need to do more to improve cybersecurity and introduce strategies to take action quickly “when, and not if, there is a further attack.” This was the conclusion of a new Public Accounts Committee report,1 which said that the attack, which affected 80 of 236 NHS trusts across England and a further 603 NHS organisations, …

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