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The NHS has been hacked

The NHS has been hacked by ransom ware. This is quite serious, folks are getting diverted to different hospitals, so must be causing havoc on their systems.

Lads, it's time to cut hafi loose, get him out there to mop all this up and scramble the hackers brains with man utd stats. Save us all hafi!

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/nhs-hack-cyber-attack-ransomware-do-i-need-to-worry-safe-hospital-security-privacy-a7732996.html

posted on 12/5/17

comment by TUX (U5315)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Baz tard (U19119)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by TUX (U5315)
posted 2 minutes ago
The NHS has been hacked
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So have many others across the globe.
I get the feeling this is nothing more than a false-flag in order to crash Bitcoin, which is flourishing, tbh.
Time will tell.


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How do you mean Tux?
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The current rise in value/usage of many cryptocurrencies being a threat to the established order of us paying for debt-laden printed (from thin-air) money.
The likes of Bitcoin are a threat to the Central Bank pirates who have been robbing us for decades.

(And no, i'm not some angry anarchist. I'm a boringly average chap who one day happened to wonder why our grandparents had it easier than us despite the 'magical technological advances' we've enjoyed. We're being robbed. It started in '71 with the end of Bretton-Woods. End of.)


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Not the first time I've heard a similar argument, and it's rather believable too. So you think this was organised on a massive level by people in high places with vested interests in damaging something like Bitcoin?

posted on 12/5/17

The ransom is to be paid in Bitcoin isn't it?

posted on 12/5/17

The threatening of established currencies has long been a cause of destabilising actions.

Iraq used to only accept Euros for their oil. After the invasion of Iraq, swiftly changed back to Dollars.

JFK being shot, he was championing a silver backed dollar rather than the federal reserve

Lincoln, trying to limit the federal reserve before that.

The Federal Reserve by the way, is not a government institution.

It is a private bank that is tasked with governing US's monetary policy and issuing dollars.
The federal reserve private bank, controls the supply of dollars.

The worth and demand of the dollar is of immediate interest to the owners of that said private bank.

posted on 12/5/17

But do you think they'd see Bitcoin as enough of a threat to do something like this? The fact it has spread as widely as is and surfaced at roughly the same time is quite interesting in itself, and suggests massive coordination efforts.

Or maybe I'm reading too much into it. Good post btw red.

posted on 12/5/17

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posted on 12/5/17

The NHS can't afford to take a moral stance here, just cough up the £270.

It's about a days wage for a middle manager.

posted on 12/5/17

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posted on 13/5/17

comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 8 hours, 35 minutes ago
The NHS can't afford to take a moral stance here, just cough up the £270.

It's about a days wage for a middle manager.
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Per computer infected? It starts to add up

posted on 13/5/17

The NHS is thought to have been particularly hard hit because of the antiquated nature of its IT infrastructure. A large part of the organization's systems are still using Windows XP, which is no longer supported by Microsoft, and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt cancelled a pricey support package in 2015 as a cost-saving measure.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/13/wannacrypt_ransomware_worm/

posted on 13/5/17

Gvt advice is don't pay up, use your back up files and upgrade to supported MS products. MS should send out this virus every 5 years as a big pay day for MS seems to be looming. Unless they themselves sent this attack for the above reasons.

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