Carolyn Dever writes: “On Halloween 2023, the British Library (BL) in London suffered a massive cyberattack, which rendered its web presence nonexistent, its collections access disabled, and even its wifi fried. The cyberattack also swept the personal data of BL’s users and staff into the hands of an outside party. During the final week of November, images of the stolen data were presented for auction on the dark web. By making the library’s digital infrastructure into a commodity (in an open, albeit dark, market), a ‘ransomware gang’ calling itself Rhysida hopes to pressure BL to pay up first.”