Essex NHS trust discloses data breach of thousands of patient records six months after cyber attack
By
Nikki Fox, Matt Precey
More flour than flavour. There's a bagel in here, just not much of one.
Summary
An Essex NHS trust (MSE) has disclosed a data breach involving thousands of patient records stolen in a cyber attack on Synnovis, a pathology services provider. The stolen data, which includes names, dates of birth, NHS numbers, postcodes, and test results, was disclosed more than six months after Synnovis notified the affected trusts. MSE has brought in cyber security experts to strengthen its systems, though the stolen data did not relate to systems run by MSE itself.
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Although the data did not relate to systems run by MSE, the trust said at a recent board meeting it had brought in cyber security experts to strengthen its own systems.
Dawn Scrafield, deputy chief executive for MSE, said the records affected related t
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