Librarians are the patron saints of hushed tones. But on a grey December morning in King’s Cross, the striking staff of the British Library are making a racket. Outside the entrance to the red brick ...

On October 23, 2023, the British Library, one of the world’s finest repositories of knowledge, was subjected to a cyber-attack. Some 600GB of files, including the personal data of Library users and ...

It has been more than three months since the British Library’s staff and users awoke to the news that its computer systems had been hijacked. After the attack on 28 October, anything that used the ...

The British Library has published extensive details of its devastating experience at the hands of the Rhysida ransomware gang, revealing how the cyber criminals likely accessed its systems in the ...

Over 300 workers at the British Library in St Pancras, London are engaged in a two-week strike until November 9 in pursuit of a wage increase. The strikers are library assistants, conservation and ...

Britain’s national library made the first major steps in its recovery process after a ransomware group took down its website and online catalog. By Jenny Gross Reporting from London The British ...