Sensitive medical data of British patients was published on the night of Thursday June 20 to Friday June 21 following a cyberattack targeting a service provider at the beginning of the month, the public health service, National Health, announced on Friday. Service (NHS). This attack further disrupts the operation of major London hospitals.
“NHS England has been informed that the cybercriminal group has published (…) data which he claims belongs to the supplier Synnovis and was stolen during this attack”, he added. Nearly 400 gigabytes of data, presented as the personal data of numerous British patients, were posted online on the site and the Telegram channel of the cybercriminal group Qilin was able to verify The world.
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Hundreds of operations postponed
On June 3, Synnovis, which carries out blood tests for major hospitals such as King’s College Hospital and St Thomas’s in London, was hit by ransomware that rendered all of its IT systems inoperable and copied patients’ personal data. The operation had a “major impact” on several hospital services, including blood transfusions, and caused the postponement of at least 1,500 operations and medical appointments.
The company received a ransom demand of 50 million euros, demanded by hackers from the Qilin group to unlock the machines. The hackers also threatened to publish all of the stolen data – threats which they eventually carried out.
Qilin, which appeared in 2022, is suspected of operating from Russia. His attacks appear to be purely profit-driven and primarily opportunistic. They target companies in very different industries by taking advantage of security vulnerabilities that have not been patched.
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