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.
