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Hundreds of businesses worldwide have been affected by the breach. our cyber reporter joe tidy explains. we cover these ransomware attacks and they re always devastating for victims because the way they work, hackers will spend some time trying to infiltrate the network of an organisation. that could be a school, hospital, a company, a large corporation, pretty much everyone s getting hit, these days. they will find a way into a computer network and at their point of choosing, they will press a few buttons and encrypt the entire system, which means it scrambles all the files and makes it useless for the user of that network. and then, of course, they send a ransom note, saying, we need to be paid x amount of money in cryptocurrency, usually bitcoin. and then we will give you back your systems. and, of course, this happening to one victim is a devastating situation for them and all their customers and people that rely on their services. but what s happened here is this cybercriminal ....
That rely on their services. but what s happened here is this cybercriminal ransom group, revil, have managed to target a company called kaseya, which is enormous but none of us have really heard of. they are used by lots and lots of other companies. so, by attacking one, they attack the entire supply chain. and what we ve seen is some real horrendous knock on effects. for example, in sweden, 500 co op supermarket stores have had to be closed over the weekend because their tills weren t working, their self service checkouts and their tills just stopped working. because, of course, they use a company that uses kaseya. so, what we are seeing here is not only a ransomware attack but a supply chain attack. police say gunmen in nigeria have raided a hospital in the northern city of zaria, abducting babies, nurses and security guards. at the moment officials say it s unclear how many people have been taken. the bbc s ishaq khalid is in the capital abuja and has the latest. well, basically, w ....