Royal Mail 'cyber incident' hits overseas post

[gt94sss2]

Royal Mail says it is unable to send letters and parcels overseas after a "cyber incident".

It is telling customers to stop sending items overseas while it tries to resolve the issue.

The firm said there were also minor delays to deliveries into the UK, but domestic deliveries are unaffected.

It apologised and said its teams were "working around the clock to resolve this disruption" and would update customers when it had more information.

Royal Mail is understood to be calling it a "cyber incident" rather than an attack because it does not know what has caused the issue.

It said its computerised systems for sending letters and parcels abroad had been "severely disrupted".

More at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64231473

[scoobymunster]

It's not just overseas stuff affected, our MC failed plenty last night due to this and we're having extra lapsing tomorrow due to the expected drop in work.

[heraldmoth]

Agreed this is not the whole story

[guardianangel]

Thompson has probably cut costs on software engineers and security.we all know what happened to the people working at the post office even though we know the government tried to cover that up.

[SpacePhoenix]

It's not just overseas stuff affected, our MC failed plenty last night due to this and we're having extra lapsing tomorrow due to the expected drop in work.

What machines were hit?

[Asmad]

Windows 7 is no longer supported by Microsoft with new security patches.

Simple Simon saving a few bob by not updating Royal Fails computer operating systems.........

Coincidence?

[SpacePhoenix]

Windows 7 is no longer supported by Microsoft with new security patches.

Simple Simon saving a few bob by not updating Royal Fails computer operating systems.........

Coincidence?

Some machines use XP!

[pinstripe]

Coincidence probably, but a ‘cyber incident’ grounded all flights in the US today
https://news.sky.com/story/all-flights- ... a-12784252

[ExeterCelt]

Ransomware attack. Computers locked out yesterday, followed by other systems. Various printers , spat out copies of the ransom note. Threat to data dump internal data on web.

This could take a while. Day-to-day will be seriously disrupted and could affect payroll amongst other functions.

Unless of course they coughup the fee.

[scoobymunster]

It's not just overseas stuff affected, our MC failed plenty last night due to this and we're having extra lapsing tomorrow due to the expected drop in work.

What machines were hit?

No flats and only some parcels sorted, alot of our MC staff were sent to bulk/SDs as thats manually done.

[SpacePhoenix]

It's not just overseas stuff affected, our MC failed plenty last night due to this and we're having extra lapsing tomorrow due to the expected drop in work.

What machines were hit?

No flats and only some parcels sorted, alot of our MC staff were sent to bulk/SDs as thats manually done.

AFAIK all our machines have been working fine

[pieoftheday]

Ransomware attack. Computers locked out yesterday, followed by other systems. Various printers , spat out copies of the ransom note. Threat to data dump internal data on web.

This could take a while. Day-to-day will be seriously disrupted and could affect payroll amongst other functions.

Unless of course they coughup the fee.

Mmight be interesting to see if/what internal data they have to dump onto web?

[fluxburner]

Anybody with a basic knowledge of software and app development who has experienced several years of appalling PDA development will know that our development teams are not fully competent,or it's being done on the cheap.
I wouldn't be surprised if a 14 year old "Script Kiddie" found that the password for accessing admin privileges was... "pa55word"

[robsdean7]

Ransomware attack. Computers locked out yesterday, followed by other systems. Various printers , spat out copies of the ransom note. Threat to data dump internal data on web.

This could take a while. Day-to-day will be seriously disrupted and could affect payroll amongst other functions.

Unless of course they coughup the fee.

No guarantee that Lockbit won't turn around and re-encrypt the files after getting paid, that's if they decrypt all the files in the first place. General advice for companies is usually to not pay the ransom.

Coincidence probably, but a ‘cyber incident’ grounded all flights in the US today
https://news.sky.com/story/all-flights- ... a-12784252

Just a co-incidence, but also the fault of not upgrading.