UK's biggest forensic services firm pays ransom to criminals after hackers launch cyber-attack on its IT systems
Britain's largest forensics testing firm has paid a ransom after its IT systems were targeted in a cyber attack, it has been reported.
Eurofins Scientific, which has laboratories in Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire and Derbyshire, was infected with a 'ransomware' computer virus a month ago.
Eurofins is responsible for more than 50% of the UK's forensic science market and processes more than 70,000 for police every year.
Court cases and criminal investigations were put on hold by UK police after the attack.
The firm's IT systems were disrupted and taken offline as a result and the company released a statement saying the attack had been 'highly sophisticated and well-resourced.'
Just a week ago the firm said its operations were 'returning to normal.'
Luxembourg-based Eurofins Scientific was hit by the attack over the weekend of June 1 to 2 (pictured, a technician searching for fingerprints on a knife at Eurofins)
The National Crime Agency, which is investigating the attack, said it was a 'matter for the v ..
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