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NHS vendor Advanced will pay just over £ 3 million ( $ 3.8 million ) in fines for not implementing basic security amount before it suffer a ransomware blast in 2022 , the U.K. ’s data shelter regulatorhas confirmed .
It ’s half the amercement that the Information Commissioner ’s Office ( ICO ) hadinitially soughtin August 2024 , when the data guard dog say it was pass to fine Advanced more than £ 6 million for its security failings .
The ICO pronounce Wednesday that Advanced “ broke datum protection law ” by not in full rolling out multi - factor authentication prior to its break , which allowed cyberpunk to break in with steal certification and steal the personal info of ten of thousands of people across the United Kingdom .
The LockBit ransomware attack on Advanced causedwidespread outages across the NHS , including patient data systems that Advanced preserve on behalf of the NHS .
In a statement , Advanced confirmed that it had settle down the affair . Advanced decline to name a voice when ask by TechCrunch .
