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Watchdog to fine NHS IT firm £6m after medical records hack

The 2022 breach included medical records and information on gaining entry to the homes of 890 people.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has provisionally imposed a £6m fine on an NHS software provider over a data breach which affected more than 80,000 people. Criminal hackers took offline seven of Advanced's health systems, including software used for patient check-ins, medical notes and the NHS 111 service. “I am choosing to publicise this provisional decision today as it is my duty to ensure other organisations have information that can help them to secure their systems and avoid similar incidents in the future," said Mr Edwards.

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