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   Ransomware disruptions contributed to a patient death, NHS finds   
      
   Date:   
   Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:00:23 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   The ransomware attack disrupted care and harmed a patient.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   Ransomware attacks are devastating for victims, but this has now reached a    
   new and tragic level, with the UKs National Health Service (NHS) confirming   
   that an attack on London hospitals in 2024 that forced ambulances to be   
   diverted and disrupted blood testing has contributed to a patient's death.    
      
   This attack targeted Synnovis, a London-based pathology service, and   
   cybercriminal group Qilin caused severe disruptions to the blood-testing   
   services, and the delay in a blood test was a contributing factor to the    
   death of a patient.    
      
   Around 800 operations and 700 outpatient appointments were cancelled or   
   rescheduled due to the attack, and personal information such as names, dates   
   of birth, NHS numbers, and even blood test data is suspected to have been   
   compromised and published in the incident .   
      
   Tragic consequences    
      
   Cybercriminals target critical infrastructure such as hospitals because they   
   are likely to pay ransoms in order to get services up and running with    
   minimal disruptions in order to protect patients, but this, of course,   
   requires a level of disruption no matter what.    
      
   One patient sadly died unexpectedly during the cyber-attack, confirmed the   
   Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.    
      
   As is standard practice when this happens, we undertook a detailed review of   
   their care. The patient safety incident investigation identified a number of   
   contributing factors that led to the patients death. This included a long    
   wait for a blood test result due to the cyber-attack impacting pathology   
   services at the time. We have met with the patients family, and shared the   
   findings of the safety investigation with them.    
      
   Its said that Qilin, the ransomware gang, demanded $50 million from Synnovis   
   in return for the stolen data, but reports suggest that Synnovis either   
   refused or failed to pay the ransom, and the data was then published online.    
      
   This is in line with the Governments ransomware payment ban for public   
   organizations, which aims to dissuade ransomware gangs from targeting public   
   services.    
      
    Via The Record   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/ransomware-disruptions-contributed-to-a   
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