Yeah That's not some kind of 'win'. That's not how these kind of attacks work and you know it. Deflecting.
He said that as part of the response, the health board will be making contact with any patients whose data has been leaked.
...and offering compensation?
He said: “We absolutely deplore the release of confidential patient data as part of this criminal act.
This kind of hacking data breach has been around for a long time now. We deplore your absolute incompetence in protecting patients confidential information. This will include their full name, date of birth, full home address, contact telephone numbers, emails - a goldmine to identity thieves - along with any and all confidential medical information.
“NHS Dumfries and Galloway is very acutely aware of the potential impact of this development on the patients whose data has been published, and the general anxiety which might result within our patient population.”
'acutely aware' but ultimately we do not give a shit otherwise we would have done something to prevent this happening.
Mr Ace previously said that "a very great effort is being made to try to prevent the attack from being repeated".
The health board is continuing to working with Police Scotland, the National Cyber Security Centre and the Scottish government and other agencies.
Too little, too late. Why weren't you working with these agencies beforehand to PREVENT this happening BEFOREHAND? Where was your Risk Assessment?! Why aren't you resigning?
Again this is yet another reason to not have a single phone number you share with both friends and bank and Govt agencies such as the NHS. The NHS is creaking along using often way out of date Windows machines running even critically unsupported Windows 7. They have piss-poor cyber security and the whole lot was almost brought to a grinding stop a few years back. It was only stopped by someone outside the NHS acting. The NHS is huge and gets endless £billions in funding but is a classic case of 'where does the money go to?!' It should have moved to an open source solution based on a secure Linux distro instead of entering into various disastrous shyster deals with Crapita and Microsoft etc. The open source community would have benefitted from a £££ injection and the NHS would have an in-house secure solution tailored to their needs
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