Scott Ikeda writes:
A cyber attack on London hospitals that has unfolded over the course of June has had a devastating impact on the city’s blood supply, and has caused hundreds of operations to be postponed. New reporting from Bloomberg indicates that the city’s hospitals have long known that Synnovis, the pathology lab at the center of the attack, was a cybersecurity risk.
Synnovis and other contractors were named in internal conversations among the Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust board of directors earlier this year, according to leaked documents seen by Bloomberg reporters. These conversations noted that the contractors were repeatedly failing to meet data security standards and could pose a serious cybersecurity risk to London hospitals. Synnovis was hit by a cyber attack in early June that has been attributed to a Russian ransomware gang.
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