Following the reported hack of an NHS supplier, earlier this month, it was not likely that the NHS in London was going to pay the ransom demanded by the Qilin cyber criminal gang – so the gang have released the data they stole.
London hospitals hackers publish stolen blood test data – BBC News
About 400GB of patient information was stolen from Synnovis, a contractor providing provides blood testing services to multiple London hospitals and it has now been released on a the Dark Web. The BBC has seen a sample of the compromised information and confirmed it included, “…patient names, dates of birth, NHS numbers and descriptions of blood tests. It is not known if test results are also in the data.”.
The attack is being called, “one of the most significant and harmful cyber attacks ever in the UK.”
A sample of the data seen by the BBC includes patient names, dates of birth, NHS numbers and descriptions of blood tests. It is not known if test results are also in the data.
The attack also resulted in more than 3000 appointmants having to be rescheduled.
Your takeaway
…because I am sure some of you have not yet read this; your fast track to getting a grip on the ransomware cybersecurity threat:
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
