King’s College Hospital was one of the affected NHS trusts, along with St Thomas’ and certain GP services
Qilin, a Russian cyber-criminal group, shared almost 400GB of private information on their darknet site on Thursday night, something they threatened to do in order to extort money from Synnovis. A sample of the stolen data seen by the BBC includes patient names, dates of birth, NHS numbers and descriptions of blood tests, something cyber security expertinfiltrated the computer systems of the company, which is used by two NHS trusts in London, and encrypted vital information making IT systems useless.
It is not known how much money the hackers demanded from Synnovis or if the company entered negotiations. But the fact Qilin has published some, potentially all, of the data means they did not pay.
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