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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Thomas

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

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The NHS failed to act on warnings over weaknesses in a database housing a million patients’ records before it was hacked and has repeated mistakes potentially leaving millions more records still exposed, it is claimed.

Last year, the Independent exposed a major cyber attack on an NHS database that led to more than one million patients’ records being hacked by cyber criminals.

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