Goole NHS Foundation Trust Data Breach (2016)

The ransomware attack that shut down a northern trust for four days has been blamed on a misconfigured firewall, according to a cyber-security review. IT systems at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust were hit with a ransomware virus, known as Globe2, on 30 October, 2016. To prevent the virus spreading, the trust shut most of its clinical systems for four days, resulting in 2,800 patient appointment cancellations, The attack has also sparked an ongoing police investigation.