Nearly 33,000 NHS Patients Caught Up in 2024 Ransomware Attack

Data breach at Bedfordshire Hospitals exposes personal info of 32,927 patients. Stay alert for suspicious activity.

Jun 4, 2026

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Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has revealed that personal data belonging to 32,927 patients was stolen and published online following a ransomware attack in June 2024. The breach hit a third-party supplier serving multiple healthcare organisations, and the stolen files — covering patients who had lab or diagnostic results between 2011 and 2020 — were later posted on dark web forums.

It took specialists over a year to piece together the fragmented, unstructured data before the trust could confirm what was taken. Exposed information may include names, dates of birth, NHS numbers, postcodes, and test results. The trust says there's no evidence the data has been misused, but is urging affected patients to stay alert to suspicious communications.

Source: BBC News

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