NHS patients’ data still exposed in ‘honeypot for hackers’ after ‘failing to act’ on cyber attack warnings

The NHS failed to address a security warning about a database before it was hacked, leading to a million patients’ records being accessed by cybercriminals. The data had been left on an older platform that lacked two-step verification. The NHS and the University of Manchester were warned about these issues before the attack took place. There are now concerns that an updated system still exposes patients’ records to potential cyberattacks. The NHS had awarded a contract to NEC Software Solutions for a new data platform to host critical patient datasets.