Report: “British Library Reveals £400,000 Plan to Rebuild After “Catastrophic” Ransomware Attack”

From The New Stack:

In October 2023, the British Library was hit by a ransomware attack so severe that a former CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre described it as “one of the worst cyber incidents in British history”.

Now, almost one year after the incident, the world-famous library has revealed details of its £400,000 plan to move forward from the disaster – which left it with a website that still doesn’t have a proper Content Management System (CMS) and forced the ongoing closure of both physical and virtual archives.

It has issued a £400,000 tender looking for contractors to take part in Phase 1 of its “Web Foundations” project, which involves rebuilding the website to ensure it is “robust, scalable, sustainable, and secure.”

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“In 2022, we undertook a Web Discovery project, which identified the path for a world-leading, user-centred website,” it wrote. “While laying the foundations for this, in October 2023 we experienced a catastrophic cyber-attack. It left us without a permanent website or access to many of the digital applications of the wider digital estate.

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