Ransomware Cyber-Attack Hits Almost 100 Countries

Publisher:
Al Jazeera
Publication Date:
13 May 2017
Tags:
Africa, ICT and Telecom, Legal and Judicial Affairs

Computer hackers have launched a major international cyber-attack which has hit almost 100 countries. Ransomware targeted users and locked them out of their computers. It has caused chaos in the UK where emergency rooms have been forced to close. Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher reports.

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