Hacking

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9 December 2025

Patient and staff data stolen in Barts Health cyber attack

Barts Health NHS Trust is warning patients and staff after hackers exploited a software vulnerability to steal personal information.
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31 July 2019

Encryption standards for medical devices ‘need to be mandatory’

Pangea Connected’s system developer, Dr Arslan Usman, said IoT medical devices need to be better regulated to boost cyber security
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16 July 2019

NHSmail registers 11 million blocked attacks in three years

According to the information released by NHS Digital, the NHSmail system blocked a total of 11.35m email attacks between since
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7 December 2018

Genomics England says DNA data not moved due to hacking attempts

Responding to reports that genetics data belonging to some 85,000 individuals had been moved to a secure Ministry of Defence
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Digital Health Cybersecurity Round-Up
17 August 2018

Cyber security news round up

Our latest cyber security round up looks at hacked patient monitoring systems and FBI fears of an imminent "cash out"
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30 April 2018

Orangeworm: Hospitals worldwide warned of ‘aggressive’ malware

Security researchers have identified a hacking group that has been targeting medical equipment in hospitals across the globe, including the
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29 March 2018

Patient death from hacked medical devices plausible, says top Kaspersky security researcher

A leading cyber security analyst at Kaspersky Lab has warned there is a viable danger of hacked medical devices resulting
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Digital Health Cybersecurity Round-Up
8 September 2017

Cybersecurity news round-up

The cybersecurity for health IT round-up covers the security risk of "brainjacking" and need for firmware updates for a company's
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20 October 2016

Davey Winder: older does not mean wiser

Healthcare IT devices and software are expected to work hard for a long time. From a security point of view,
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21 September 2016

Fancy Bears hackers use plain old phishing to steal health records

The World Anti-Doping Agency has been hacked. What’s that to do with healthcare IT? Well, it was health records that
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