Delivery company refused to pay $80m ransom but now faces another round of strikes

Royal Mail has restarted international parcel and letter deliveries almost six weeks after it revealed it had been affected by a ransomware cyber-attack that left it battling to get its international services back up and running.

The delivery company refused to pay an $80m (£67m) ransom demanded by hackers linked to Russia after the “cyber incident”, which resulted in 11,500 Post Office branches across the UK being unable to handle international mail or parcels.

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