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Reports of the breach suggest one member of staff at the famous hospital was caught attempting to view notes for Kate Middleton, the future Queen of the United Kingdom. We have systems in place to monitor management of patient information and, in the case of any breach, all appropriate investigatory, regulatory and disciplinary steps will be taken.

A ransomware attack and resulting outages at direct debit collection company London & Zurich has forced at least one customer to take out a short-term loan as six-figure backlogs continue to cause cash flow mayhem. London & Zurich's outage began on November 10 and was confirmed as a ransomware attack four days later on the company's website.

Two U.K. teenagers have been convicted by a jury in London for being part of the notorious LAPSUS$ transnational gang and for orchestrating a series of brazen, high-profile hacks against major tech firms and demanding a ransom in exchange for not leaking the stolen information. Central to pulling off the extortion schemes was their ability to conduct SIM swapping and prompt bombing attacks to gain unauthorized access to corporate networks after an extensive social engineering phase.

Capita, which is still dealing with a digital break-in that exposed customers' data to criminals, has scored a £50 million contract with the City of London police to run contact and engagement services for the force's fraud reporting service. The work will see Capita provide an "End-to-end customer management process" to potential victims of fraud when they contract the service.

Lloyd's of London has reset its IT systems and is probing a possible cyberattack against it after detecting worrisome network behavior this week. "Lloyd's has detected unusual activity on its network and we are investigating the issue," a spokesperson told The Register on Thursday.

The City of London Police on Friday revealed that it has arrested a 17-year-old teenager from Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking."On the evening of Thursday 22 September 2022, the City of London Police arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking," the agency said, adding "He remains in police custody."

If you head to CyberThreat 22 this Autumn you can draw on the expertise of some of the world's most experienced practitioners. This year's event takes place from September 12 to 13, at the Park Plaza in Westminster, London, and is backed by two of the most influential organizations in cybersecurity - SANS Institute and the UK government's National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of GCHQ. The organisers unabashedly describe Cyberthreat as the most technical cybersecurity event in the UK, but recognise that Cyber Defence is a team sport, that everyone is on a different journey and that every discovery, analytic achievement and breakthrough is backed by a personal story.

Eurostar is testing a new biometric facial recognition technology on passengers traveling from London's St Pancras International station to continental Europe. The system will involve two facial scans, one at the ticket gate to verify the ticket check and one at the UK Exit Checkpoint, to confirm that the passport information is valid.

Singapore and the UK signed three memorandums of understanding this week, hoping to strengthen digital connectivity between the two island nations. In a canned statement, Singapore's Minister for Communications and Information, Josephine Teo, said the agreement would "Further strengthen the links between Singapore and the UK in digital trade facilitation, digital identities and cybersecurity."

The insurer's "Cyber War and Cyber Operation Exclusion Clauses", published late last week, include an alarming line suggesting policies should not cover "Retaliatory cyber operations between any specified states" or cyber attacks that have "a major detrimental impact on the functioning of a state." Although the wordings in the four clauses are published as a suggestion for insurers in Lloyd's-underwritten policies and are not concrete rules, they provide a useful indicator for the direction of travel in the slow-moving cyber insurance world.