Hack that crippled London hospitals is only the latest to hit UK

The incidents illustrate the numerous cybersecurity challenges facing the NHS, which delivers care to the UK’s 68 million residents through a network of 229 trusts spread out across the kingdom. — AFP

In June of last year, a Russian cybercrime gang called BlackCat hacked the Barts Health NHS Trust, a part of the UK’s National Health Service that operates several hospitals in London, and published some of it online in an extortion attempt.

Last month, a different group, called INC Ransom, published a huge trove of data – three terabytes’ worth – culled from a hack of the NHS Dumfries and Galloway, an NHS board overseeing a region of Scotland for the health service.