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Essex NHS Trust Confirms Stolen Patient Records

| 2026-06-09 09:15 HIGH LOW DATA BREACH
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Executive Summary
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In June 2024, a ransomware attack by the Qilin gang crippled pathology services across south east London, forcing hospitals to cancel thousands of appointments and operations while clinicians struggled with delays to blood testing and transfusion services. The Synnovis breach affected approximately 2,380 records relating to patients who underwent specialist diagnostic testing in Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, as well as nearly 33,000 patient records caught up in the same breach by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The attack works by exploiting vulnerabilities in hospital systems, allowing hackers to access sensitive data such as patient information. As of June 2026, the current status is that affected organizations are still assessing what was taken and whether patients should be contacted, with some records yet to be directly linked to individual patients, leaving it uncertain how many people were ultimately affected by the breach.
Technical Mitigations AI-generated
• Reset credentials and API keys that may have been exposed, and review access logs for the affected accounts or integrations.
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Actors / Malware / CVEs / Campaigns
QilinQilin
Target & Sectors
NORTH_AMERICA NORTH_AMERICA healthhealth
Incident Timeline
‎2026/06/09
The Qilin NHS trust confirmed that approximately 2,380 patient records from a Synnovis ransomware attack were stolen.
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The trust told The Register that the Synnovis breach affected about 2,380 records relating to patients who underwent specialist diagnostic testing.
data_breach 33,000 patient records
The disclosure follows a similar announcement by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which earlier this month said that almost 33,000 patient records had been caught up in the same breach .
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2,380
Records
The trust told The Register that the Synnovis breach affected about 2,380 records relating to patients who underwent specialist diagnostic testing.
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33,000
Patient Records
The disclosure follows a similar announcement by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which earlier this month said that almost 33,000 patient records had been caught up in the same breach .
Intelligence Sources
The Register - Cybercrime 2026-06-09