Synnovis Security Incident

Attacks and Vulnerabilities Malware, Phishing & Ransomware Medical News NHS updates on disruptions, potential data breach following London lab ransomware attack June 18, 2024 The U.K. National Health Service (NHS) released an update regarding the ransomware cyber attack on June 3rd against Synnovis, a pathology laboratory that processes blood tests for several NHS entities, primarily in southeast London. The attack has significantly reduced the laboratorys capacity to process and report test results to clinical teams. Consequently, over 800 planned operations and 700 outpatient appointments have been rescheduled across the two most affected Trusts Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust. The agency acknowledged in its recent update Where there is a ransomware attack, there is always a risk that cyber criminals also access data. Alongside work on restoring services, investigations are continuing to establish any possible impact to data. Responding to the cyber attack, the NHS England London declared a regional incident and has been coordinating work across affected services, as well as with neighboring providers and national partners, to manage disruption. Despite the disruptions, the majority of planned medical activities have proceeded, although some specialties have been more affected than others. This included coordinating mutual aid to ensure patients needing time-sensitive care can receive it, including having operations at other hospitals; working with Synnovis and trusts to find ways to increase the number of tests that can be reported per day, while also working with other pathology services to reroute blood tests from GP surgeries. This is currently in place for practices in Lambeth and Southwark and will be rolled out to other boroughs as soon as possible, and working with NHS Blood and Transplant to provide extra stocks of universal blood types. Urgent and emergency services in the local area are...

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