Cyber expert urges against 'panic' over NHS data leak

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31 minutes ago David Cowan,Home Affairs Correspondent NHS DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY Thousands of patient records have been posted on the dark web by a ransomware group The founding chief executive of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre has urged people not to panic after a Scottish health board was targeted by cyber criminals.
The NCSC is one of several organisations now responding to the attack on NHS Dumfries and Galloway by a group called INC Ransom.
Ciaran Martin said it was 'unusual' for patients to come to direct harm due to the leaking of data Mr Martin, who left the role in 2020 and is now a professor at the University of Oxford, said: "It's a very difficult situation but experience from the rest of the world suggests that even when this data is dumped on the dark web, relatively little direct harm occurs.
NATIONAL CRIME AGENCY LockBit founder Dmitry Khoroshev was unmasked during a joint operation between the UK, US and Australia So far, there has not been any messaging from Police Scotland warning people not to access or share the stolen data.