Hospital patient’s death linked to cyber attack on NHS

• A patient death at King’s College Hospital in south London has been linked to a cyber attack that crippled NHS blood services last year.
• An investigation into the death identified a "long wait for a blood test result due to the cyber attack" as a contributing factor.
• The cyber attack was a ransomware incident by a Russian cyber gang targeting pathology services provider Synnovis in June last year.
• The attack resulted in the cancellation of over 10,000 appointments at two affected London NHS trusts and prevented many GP practices from ordering blood tests.
• Earlier this month, health officials confirmed that 170 patients suffered harm as a result of the cyber attack.

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Cyber attack on hospitals ‘contributed to patient death’