"The June 2024 cyber attack affected both Guy's and St Thomas' and King's College hospitals in London, as well as other NHS services across the capital. The incident saw thousands of outpatient appointments and elective procedures cancelled, caused a major shortage of much needed blood bank stocks, and has since been linked to at least one fatality. The ransomware gang subsequently released a 400GB trove of data online."
"In a new update this week, Synnovis said its own investigation into the incident had now concluded. "We are in the process of contacting each organisation whose data was compromised," the organisation said. "This will be completed by 21 November 2025. Each affected organisation will ... decide if any patients need to be notified and how they will make those notifications.... Synnovis will not be contacting any impacted patients directly.""
Synnovis, a joint-venture pathology services partnership between two London NHS trusts and Synlab, is notifying NHS partners that their data was stolen in a Qilin ransomware attack nearly 18 months after the incident. The June 2024 attack affected Guy's and St Thomas', King's College hospitals and other NHS services across London, cancelling thousands of outpatient appointments and elective procedures, causing severe blood bank shortages and being linked to at least one fatality. The ransomware gang released a 400GB trove of data online. Synnovis has completed its investigation and will contact affected organisations by 21 November 2025 but will not contact patients directly. As a data processor, Synnovis places responsibility for patient notification with NHS data controllers. The investigation took more than a year due to exceptional scale and complexity and the leaked data was described as stolen "in haste and in a random manner"; Synnovis maintained regular communication with the Information Commissioner's Office.
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