Qilin NHS breach tally grows as Essex trust confirms stolen records

Two years on from ransomware attack, hospitals are still trying to identify and warn patients

The patient tally from the Synnovis ransomware attack continues to grow two years later, with Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust confirming it was caught up in the breach.

The trust told The Register that the Synnovis breach affected about 2,380 records relating to patients who underwent specialist diagnostic testing.

The disclosure follows a similar announcement by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which earlier this month said that almost 33,000 patient records had been caught up in the same breach.

According to Mid and South Essex, some of the compromised data cannot yet be directly linked to individual patients, meaning the trust is still unable to determine the final number of people affected. It also said the precise time period covered by the stolen records has yet to be established, although patients tested...

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