Wirral hospitals declare critical incident after cyber attack
Wirral University Teaching Hospital declared a critical incident after a cyber attack, cancelling outpatient appointments and switching to back-up processes for days.
- Service
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital
- Date
- 25 November 2024
- Cause
- Cyberattack
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- UK
- Source
- The Register ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Wirral hospitals declare critical incident after cyber attack”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 25 Nov 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-11-25-wirral-university-teaching-hospital-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: The Register, https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/inc_ransom_alder_hey_childrens_hospital/.
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