Luke Alsford reports:
A prestigious IVF clinic has confirmed Russian hackers broke into their systems used by thousands of couples across the UK after Metro revealed the huge data breach.
The London Women’s Clinic, which offers IVF, egg freezing and other fertility treatments at 17 centres across the country, was compromised by the ransomware gang Qilin.
A number of NHS patients are among those who use the clinic and may have been at risk of having their private medical data exposed.
The ‘concerning’ data breach is believed to have taken place on October 19, when the Russian group posted about it on its dark web channels.
Read more at Metro.