Hacking
(asked on 19th February 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people affected by the cyber attack reported by the BBC on 11 February 2018 in which hackers took control of other people's computers to mine cryptocurrency.
This question was answered on 27th February 2018
The Department does not have an estimate of the number of people affected. The incident is being investigated by technical experts at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC.) The NCSC judges that any effect would have been temporary.