Hackers holding Royal Family medical records to ransom
A group of cyber criminals are threatening to publish the private medical records of the Royal Family following a data breach at an exclusive private London hospital. The King Edward VII hospital was targeted in a cyberattack by the Rhysida ransomware group who have put the medical records up for auction on the dark web for £300,000. The group have said they will publish the medical records if a bidder does not come forward. The attack is the latest in a long line of incidents that have targeted the British Library, the University of West Scotland and the Prospect Medical Holdings Group in the US. Report by Caponm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 A group of online hackers are threatening to release the medical records of the royal family.
00:05 The Reseda ransomware group has targeted the King Edward VII private hospital in central London
00:09 in the latest of a long line of cyber attacks.
00:12 The self-proclaimed foremost private hospital in the capital has played host to the royal family for decades,
00:17 famously treating the likes of the late Queen in 1982, the Princess of Wales in 2012 and Prince Philip in 2021.
00:26 The cyber gang, named after a venomous tropical centipede, revealed on the dark web that they had successfully hacked
00:32 the security of the hospital and stolen the medical data of the royal family.
00:36 The group subsequently announced that the stolen data was up for auction at £300,000 to a single bidder.
00:41 They later added that if the data was not purchased by Tuesday 5th December, they would publicly release the information.
00:47 This isn't the first time the Reseda group has made the headlines.
00:51 The group admitted responsibility for a cyber attack on the British Library last month,
00:55 as well as previously targeting the University of West Scotland in the summer.
00:59 The group have also launched cyber attacks in countries such as the United States, Portugal and Kuwait.
01:05 The police, in conjunction with the National Security Centre and GCHQ, are investigating the data breach.
01:11 Meanwhile, Buckingham Palace has yet to comment.
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