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NHS Dumfries and Galloway has confirmed that a "Recognised ransomware group" was able to "Access a significant amount of data including patient and staff-identifiable information," and has published "Clinical data relating to a small number of patients." "NHS DG still holds the original files and they have not been altered or deleted. Some information has been copied and leaked. NHS DG will contact everyone whose information is known to have been leaked. We are still investigating how much information has been stolen. Unfortunately we cannot yet rule out that more information will be leaked in the future," the board said.
NHS Scotland says it managed to contain a ransomware group's malware to a regional branch, preventing the spread of infection across the entire institution.The INC Ransom group this week claimed responsibility for the assault on 'NHS Scotland', saying it stole 3TB worth of data while leaking a small number of sensitive files.
The INC Ransom extortion gang is threatening to publish three terabytes of data allegedly stolen after breaching the National Health Service of Scotland. In a post yesterday, the cybercriminals shared multiple images containing medical details and said that they would leak data "Soon," unless the NHS pays a ransom.
Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University has entered a second week of woe following a vist by an infosec nasty. The 200-year-old institution's IT team first referred to the crisis as a "Security incident" but a spokesperson confirmed to The Register that it was a cyber attack.
The United Kingdom's data watchdog is calling on organisations to review their "Bulk email practices" after a BCC blunder by HIV Scotland incurred a £10,000 fine for breaking data protection regulations. The case pertains to an email that was sent to 105 individuals on the Community Advisory Network list, which is made up of patient-advocates "From across Scotland to represent the full diversity of people living with HIV".
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency confirmed on Thursday that some of its contact center, internal systems, processes and internal communications were affected following a ransomware attack that took place on Christmas Eve. "SEPA confirms ongoing ransomware attack likely to be by international serious and organised cyber-crime groups intent on disrupting public services and extorting public funds," the agency said.
The Scottish government is sizing up the market for suppliers to develop on its low-code technology platform and support its social security overhaul. Having selected low-code platform OutSystems to help modernise IT services from its executive agency Social Security Scotland, the Scottish government is now looking for a "Strategic partner" to help develop solutions on the platform.
The criminals who took out Scotland's Dundee and Angus College made a ransom demand that precisely added up to the contents of its bank account - and that was no accident, its principal has said. In a postmortem interview with academic IT nonprofit Jisc, Simon Hewitt lifted the lid on the 31 January ransomware attack, which went on for days and saw the college's entire IT estate almost completely wiped.
An innocent drone has crashed after being attacked by an aggressive Scottish black-headed gull. The remote-controlled craft, a DJI Matrice M200 quadcopter, was being flown over Stranraer Academy in Dumfries and Galloway when the avian terror struck without warning.
A further education college in east Scotland has been struck by what its principal described as a cyber "Bomb" in an apparent ransomware attack so bad that students have been told to stay away and reset passwords en masse. Dundee and Angus College told students not to turn up after the ransomware seemingly downed the entire institution's IT systems.