Hacked UK Trove Includes Data on Newborns, Cancer Patients
- Stolen records show impact of hack extended across UK, Ireland
- Hacker group released trove after failing to secure a ransom
National Health Service laboratory coats at a hospital in London, UK.
Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/BloombergHackers behind a London hospital attack recently published records that include personal information about pregnant women, newborns, cancer patients, people suffering from schizophrenia and thousands of others across the UK and Ireland, revealing the breach was far more widespread than authorities have previously indicated.
An analysis of the data trove by Bloomberg News found that it contains tens of thousands of medical records on patients from more than 400 public and private hospitals and clinics. Among the records are some 40,000 highly sensitive documents sent by doctors requesting biopsies and blood tests for individual patients in all regions of the UK and some hospitals in Ireland.