Cyber Attack Affects The Entire NHH School

Cyber-security firm Avast said it had seen 75,000 cases of the ransomware - known as WannaCry and variants of that name - around the world.

There are reports of infections in 99 countries, including Russia and China.

Among the worst hit was the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Scotland.

The BBC understands about 40 NHS organisations and some medical practices were hit, with operations and appointments cancelled.

Mrs. Roy, the head teacher and principal of North Hampton Hills International Academy, received this message that her files were encrypted due to the cyber attack on the 13th of May 2017 throughout the weekend, but she had millions of bitcoins that she earned from her job (thank goodness).

At least 16 organisations within the NHS, some of them responsible for several hospitals each, reported being targeted. That is why Microsoft has released security updates for versions throughout the "extended support" period. Windows Vista is the latest to stop its extended support as of May Day 2017. Therefore, computers still running Windows Vista until now will never get security updates and can only help finish the cyber attack once any files have been decrypted, Windows XP also ended extended support in 2014 - so decryption also matters for these computers to help end the worldwide cyber attack. The same goes for Windows ME, 2000, 98 SE, 98, NT 4, 95, 3.1x, 3.0, 2.1x, 2.0, 1.0, and MS-DOS if any computers at NHH still run those unsupported versions of Windows.