Queens Public library under ransomware attack e-borrowing suspended

Re:Queens Public library under ransomware attack e-borrowing... by brador on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:15AM (#50439238)

It’s a library.

Wipe the system and start again.

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Re:Queens Public library under ransomware attack e-borrowing... by gosub100 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:26AM (#50439347)

should be simple, restore from backup. right ?

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Re:Queens Public library under ransomware attack e-borrowing... by KineticLensman on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:52AM (#50440364)

When the British Library was hit by ransomware, some systems were down for months. They were old software that didn't run on the newer more secure systems the library had to migrate to. And there was no funding to rewrite them, not without cutting already affected services.

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Re:Queens Public library under ransomware attack e-borrowing... by dotemacs on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:26AM (#50441722)

The British Library is still recovering from the 2023 attack, more than three years later... some systems are still not available.

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Re:Queens Public library under ransomware attack e-borrowing... by anigbrowl on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:06PM (#50446328)

The cost out of the previous administrators' pensions.

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Re:Queens Public library under ransomware attack e-borrowing... by criddell on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:37AM (#50441874)

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Re:Queens Public library under ransomware attack e-borrowing... by WalterBright on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:04PM (#50443114)

So the backups are kept online? Crazy. If your backups are connected to the internet, you don't have backups.

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Re:Queens Public library under ransomware attack e-borrowing... by criddell on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:52PM (#50443683)

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