Denmark among countries hit by hacker attacks: reports

COPENHAGEN, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Denmark is one of the dozens of countries that were affected by a massive hacker attack with so-called ransomware on Friday, local media reported.

"I can see on our map that Denmark has been tried to be attacked in the first hours of the attack," Leif Jensen, director of IT security company Kaspersky's Nordic department, was quoted by Danish TV2 channel as saying.

The cyber attack first emerged earlier on Friday to hit a number of hospitals in England, with files on computers being locked.