No ransomware gang has claimed responsiblity for the November 21 attack on the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust but a second attack on a children’s hospital is also causing significant problems. The Register reports:
The attack on Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is apparently unconnected to an ongoing cyber “incident” at the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust that is causing severe disruption at hospitals nearby.
The children’s hospital also dispelled any possible links to the Wirral incident, ongoing since earlier this week, which was allegedly carried out by rival ransomware crooks over at RansomHub.
INC Ransom, the group that claimed responsibility for an attack on NHS Scotland in June this year, now claims to have stolen data from Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Read more at The Register.
