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Cyber attack delayed cancer treatment at NHS hospital
An NHS hospital has admitted its cancer treatment wait times increased in the wake of a cyber attack that took down its systems at the end of last year — and it will take many months to recover. Last November, NHS hospitals and health centers that make up Wirral University Teaching Hospital Trust in Merseyside were hit by a major…
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Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust investigating data breach after ransomware gang claims attack
Last night, ransomware gang INC added Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust to its data leak site. It alleges to have stolen patient records, donor reports, and procurement data from 2018 to 2024. Comparitech contacted the children’s hospital in Liverpool for more information and the Trust subsequently released a statement. In it, it confirmed it was aware of the threats…
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1.1 Million UK NHS Employee Records Exposed
Over a million NHS employee records — including email addresses, phone numbers, and home addresses — were exposed online due to a misconfiguration of the low-code website builder Microsoft Power Pages. In September, researchers with the software-as-a-service security platform AppOmni identified a large shared business service provider for the NHS that was allowing unauthorised access to sensitive data through insecure…
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