The spokesperson said an organisation that “provided essential services to us and other healthcare bodies” experienced the attack in June 2024.<\/p>\n
It formed part of a wider incident affecting other organisations that supported the healthcare sector, they said.<\/p>\n
The trust said criminals extracted files which were later published on online forums known for sharing stolen data.<\/p>\n
It said: “The files taken were not organised as a single database and were highly unstructured, incomplete and fragmented.<\/p>\n
“As a result, it has taken more than a year of detailed analysis by specialist teams at the supplier to reconstruct and understand what information was present and which organisations it related to.”<\/p>\n
In October 2025, the spokesperson said the supplier told the NHS that data relevant to the trust had been included, recovered and analysed.<\/p>\n
In total, data linked to 32,927 individuals was shared.<\/p>\n
They said they decided to share the information after completing a review. The trust said it had liaised with the NHS England information governance team and notified the Information Commissioner’s Office.<\/p>\n
It added: “While the data remains present in those places, publication alone does not mean that it has been used in a harmful way. At this time, we are not aware of any evidence that the information has been accessed or used inappropriately.”<\/p>\n
The supplier had obtained a court injunction in an attempt to stop third parties sharing the data, the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n
The trust runs the acute hospitals of Bedford, and Luton and Dunstable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The spokesperson said an organisation that “provided essential services to us and other healthcare bodies” experienced the attack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-619047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}