An NHS board has warned patients that further personal information could be leaked by cyber criminals who stole medical data in a major cyber attack.
A large amount of confidential data was taken from NHS Dumfries and Galloway during a sustained hacking attack. Last week, INC Ransom, an extortion operation, posted a message on its dark web blog, threatening to release three terabytes – which equates to 3,000 gigabytes – of stolen patient and staff data. On March 27, NHS Dumfries and Galloway confirmed clinical data relating to a small number of patients had been published as a “proof pack” by the cybercrime.
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Source: STV News