A spokesperson from Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: "We can confirm that the radiology services affected by the national cyber-attack at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital have been restored".
Problems with cyber security in the NHS was highlighted a year ago by Dame Fiona Caldicott, the national data guardian, who warned issues were given insufficient priority and that health bodies persisted in using obsolete computer systems, The Times reported.
The attack on Friday saw ambulances diverted and operations cancelled up and down the country.
But as Asia woke up to the working week on Monday, leading Chinese security-software provider Qihoo 360 said "hundreds of thousands" of computers in the country were hit at almost 30,000 institutions including government agencies.
The WannaCry ransomware started taking over users' files on Friday, demanding $300 to restore access.
Security minister Ben Wallace said that the NHS had followed "pretty good procedures" in dealing with the attack. His $11 purchase of the name on Friday activated the domain, which commanded the malware to stop spreading. The cyberattack paralyzed computers that run Britain's hospital network, Germany's national railway and scores of other companies and government agencies worldwide.
Following the alert, the Gujarat government began equipping its state computer systems with anti-virus softwares and upgrading its Microsoft operating systems.
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Hospital Trust 'remains vigilant' after cyber attack
According to a cyber-security expert who spoke to ET, a state-run IP network has also been badly hit. Two months ago, Microsoft released the patch that could have prevented the outbreak.
The Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center, a nonprofit group, said 2,000 computers at 600 locations in Japan were affected.
Experts think it unlikely to have been one person, with criminally minded cyber crime syndicates nowadays going underground and using ever more sophisticated encryption to hide their activities.
Europol said on Monday it was continuing to hunt for the culprits behind the unprecedented attack.
Major companies that includes sixteen National Health Service organsisations in the U.K. FedEx, telecom companies Telefonica of Spain and Megafon of Russian Federation were also hit.
Defence minister Michael Fallon told the BBC the government under Prime Minister Theresa May was spending around 50 million pounds on improving the computer systems in the NHS after warning the service that it needed to reduce its exposure to "the weakest system, the Windows XP".
He added that there is concern that family doctors' surgeries could be struck on Monday when they open.
Technical staff restored data and replaced security patches over the weekend at trusts across the country, Mr Wallace said.
The British government denied allegations that lax cybersecurity in the financially stretched, state-funded health service had helped the attack spread. "The latest count is over 200,000 victims in at least 150 countries, and those victims, many of those will be businesses, including large corporations".
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