The Breach Files — Episode 3: "All Your Files"

May 12th, 2017. Across the United Kingdom, hospital screens turned blue. Operations cancelled. Patients turned away. Ambulances diverted. The NHS was under attack — not by a foreign army, but by ransomware built from a stolen American weapon. WannaCry was the most destructive cyberattack in history at the time of its release. The exploit behind it had been developed by the NSA, stolen by a group called the Shadow Brokers, and weaponized by North Korea. It spread to 150 countries in 24 hours. A 22-year-old security researcher stopped it from his bedroom for ten dollars and sixty-nine cents. The Breach Files: True cybercrime. Dramatized.Support the show