HACKERS brought downwardly a website for a wellness trust serving 700,000 NHS patients inward Dorset.
The attack, which disabled the site over the weekend, blocked access to the Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust website.
The trust provides handling for mental wellness issues, addiction, dentistry, as well as roughly principal attention services to patients across the county.
Hackers posted a message on the site which read: “Don’t mess alongside me. Site totally hacked” as well as a cartoon ikon of a penguin emerging from a shattered figurer hide carrying a gun.
A jumbled message posted past times the hacker on the trust’s website read: “You telephone phone this security. You must survive kidding. If you lot don’t desire to driblet dead into trouble, acre your admin.”
Dr Paul Ton de Vrieze, a lecturer inward spider web systems as well as technologies at Bournemouth University, said such attacks were oft made exclusively for the hacker’s satisfaction.
“Sometimes people hack sites for their ain bravura. They intend it is fun to create as well as present the basis that they are able to create it,” he said.
He added that acre the assault was illegal, tracing as well as prosecuting the hacker could survive a complicated process, specially if the assault came from abroad.
Dr de Vrieze said that the trust could hire information technology specialists to examination the site’s safety alongside authorised as well as legal “benign” attacks.
Julie Dean, a spokesperson for the trust, confirmed that the site had been disrupted over the weekend only said it was backed upward as well as had been restored past times 9.30am yesterday.
“No personalised, identifiable information or information is stored on the website, as well as thence no information has been lost or compromised inward whatsoever agency every bit a number of this,” she said.
“The trust is inward intelligence alongside our website provider over measures to limit the site from future, like attempts to disrupt its viability.”
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