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Greenland hit by cyber attack, finds its health service crippled

Posted on May 21, 2022 by Dissent

Graham Cluley reports:

It appears that Costa Rica isn’t the only country making headlines as it battles cyber attackers.

For the past week and a half, Greenland’s health service has reportedly been struggling to recover from a cyber attack that has crippled its IT systems, causing long waiting times and forcing doctors to resort to using pen and paper instead of computers.

Although it is not currently believed that any data has been stolen by the attackers, the attack on Greenland’s health service has caused large amounts of disruption since May 9 2022.

Read more at Bitdefender.com.

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