The British Library has confirmed to The Register that a “cyber incident” is the cause of a “major” multi-day IT outage.
The social media mouthpiece for the Library began reporting issues on the morning of October 28, saying its website and services at the St Pancras site in central London, including Wi-Fi access, were affected.
The British Library said in a post to its X account that it expected the issues to persist for “the next few days.”
Subsequent updates confirmed phone lines and on-site services in both St Pancras and Yorkshire were down, including the library’s website, which remains inaccessible at the time of writing.
