I thought they'd have gained a lot more bitcoin's by now. I'm assuming the number of payments will rise dramatically as we get near some of the deadlines they set for ransoms to be paid?
The NHS can't just lose patients records by not paying.....can they?
If they do not have any backups, then yes, they can. But i cannot imagine an institution as large as theirs not having backups. There is no way to get past the encryption unless you pay them - as far as i know no-one has managed to get past it.