British Library Restores Main Catalog Eleven Weeks After Rhysida Ransomware Attack

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The British Library is restoring online its main catalog, containing 36 million records of printed and rare books, maps, journals, and music scores, eleven weeks after a catastrophic ransomware attack by the Rhysida gang.

However, access is limited to a “read-only” format, and complete restoration of services provided by the UK’s national library could take until the end of the year. “Full recovery of all our services will be a gradual process,” Sir Roly Keating, the library’s chief executive, said,

He apologized that “for the past two months, researchers who rely for their studies and in some cases of their livelihoods on access to the library’s collection have been deprived of it.”

Earlier this …