Police suspend work with major forensics firm after cyber-attack

More than half of outsourced case work disrupted due to Eurofins security breach

Police have halted all work with the UK's largest private forensics provider after a ransomware attack, in the latest crisis to hit the forensics sector.

Eurofins, which carries out DNA analysis, toxicology, ballistics and computer forensics work, detected a breach of its system on 2 June. It has emerged that police have suspended all work with the company, thought to amount to more than 50% of outsourced case work.