The IT Nerd

This isn’t good.

In another example of health care being easy targets for threat actors, a number of London hospitals have apparently been pwned in a cyberattack. Sky News has the details:

King’s College Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’, including the Royal Brompton and the Evelina London Children’s Hospital, and primary care services were hit by the “major IT incident” involving pathology partner Synnovis, letters sent to NHS staff said.

Trusts reported the incident was having a “major impact” on the delivery of services, with blood transfusions particularly affected.

Some procedures and operations have been cancelled or have been redirected to other NHS providers as hospital bosses continue to establish what work can be carried out safely.

And:

The cyber incident is thought to have occurred on Monday, meaning some departments could not connect to their main server.

Several senior sources have told the Health Service Journal (HSJ) the system has been the victim of a ransomware attack.

This is why I keep saying that the health care sector needs to do better to protect itself. But on top of that, they need better funding to do so. The UK is in the middle of a general election so I am sure that this incident will come up on the campaign trail. But in the meantime, this is a devastating cyberattack that will have far reaching implications for weeks.

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