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Hackers threaten to publish huge cache of Scottish NHS data

posted onMarch 29, 2024
by l33tdawg
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A ransomware group is threatening to publish a huge cache of stolen data following a cyber attack on a Scottish health board.

NHS Dumfries and Galloway warned earlier this month that hackers could have acquired “a significant quantity” of patient and staff information. A group calling itself INC Ransom has now said it will make public three terabytes of data unless its demands are met.

The cyber criminals have published what they’ve called a “proof pack,” including confidential information on a small number of patients. The first minister said the government is doing everything it can to stop the release of the stolen data. NHS Dumfries and Galloway confirmed that "clinical data relating to a small number of patients" had been published by a recognised ransomware group.

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