University College London hit by ransomware attack

Hospitals with relationship to university suspend email servers in precautionary measure against phishing scam

University College London has been hit by a "major" ransomware attack which brought down its shared drives and student management system.

The attack has also led to a number of hospital trusts suspending their email servers as a precautionary measure, in an attempt to prevent the repetition of last month's damaging WannaCry epidemic.