{"id":455701,"date":"2022-08-08T07:05:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T05:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=455701"},"modified":"2022-08-08T08:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T06:02:17","slug":"hackers-take-down-uk-emergency-services-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/455701-hackers-take-down-uk-emergency-services-system.html","title":{"rendered":"Hackers take down UK emergency services system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major cyber attack is delaying response times on the NHS 111 telephone service in the UK that\u2019s used for medical emergencies, the Telegraph\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/08\/05\/nhs-111-suffers-cyber-attack-staff-resorting-pens-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The target of the breach was Advanced, which is owned by private equity companies. It supplies software for about 85% of the hotline\u2019s services, according to the paper.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers were part of an organised criminal ground, according to an updated version of the report.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s Adastra system allows call handlers to dispatch ambulances, book urgent appointments or fulfil emergency prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Cases in need of an ambulance are being prioritized, the paper cited a source from the National Health Service as saying. The systems could remain offline until Aug. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Short, chief operating officer of Advanced, said a security issue was identified on Aug. 4 and as a precaution the health and care systems were immediately isolated.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s services also extend to care homes and a patient record management system.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneadvanced.com\/investors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Advanced<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is owned by Vista Equity Partners and BC Partners.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/455599-security-researcher-discovers-popular-mac-applications-riddled-with-malware.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Security researcher discovers popular Mac applications riddled with malware<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major cyber attack is delaying response times on the NHS 111 telephone service in the UK that\u2019s used for medical emergencies, the Telegraph\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":455707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[44160,80457,26736,34531],"class_list":["post-455701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-cyberattack","tag-national-health-service-nhs","tag-the-telegraph","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}