{"id":637384,"date":"2026-06-13T23:24:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637384\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T23:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:24:30","slug":"should-east-of-england-patients-worry-about-their-stolen-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637384\/","title":{"rendered":"Should East of England patients worry about their stolen data?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said it was &#8220;not aware of any evidence that the information has been accessed or used inappropriately&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust said it was contacting patients whose data had been affected by the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The National Cyber Security Centre has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsc.gov.uk\/guidance\/data-breaches\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published guidance, external<\/a> for individuals and families about what you can do to protect yourself from the impact of data breaches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, Synnovis said: &#8220;Expert advice indicates that the risk to individuals is low.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Action Fraud, the UK&#8217;s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, said to contact the organisation if someone claims to have your data. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Deryck Mitchelson, a cyber-security expert from Systal Technology Solutions, told BBC Essex: &#8220;Medical data is some of the most valuable data on the dark web that the criminals are trying to sell and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s behind these attacks. It&#8217;s commercial. They&#8217;re trying to make money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added criminals were now also using artificial intelligence to analyse different datasets to increase their value.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Essex? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said it was &#8220;not aware of any evidence that the information has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-637384","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\/637384","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=637384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}