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UK: Kettering General Hospital ‘investigating’ email data breach

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Dissent

Doug Drinkwater reports:

Kettering General Hospital‘s IT security has been breached by a well-known Russian hacking group, which has started using the hospital’s email server to send spam emails advertising illegal goods on the dark web according to penetration tester and social engineering expert Richard De Vere, principal consultant for the AntiSocial Engineer Ltd,

SCMagazineUK.com can exclusively reveal that the hospital is believed to have been compromised by Russian hacking group ‘Horux’ in mid-August, although the true extent has only now been recognised by senior management at the hospital.

Read more on SC MagazineUK

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