St John's Ambulance Data Breach (2019)

St John's Ambulance, the first-aid charity, confirmed that it become victim of a ransomware attack that occurred at 9am on Tuesday (i.e. on July 2, 2019). The charity, which offers volunteer medical services, said that the attack temporarily blocked them from accessing the data that the customers had given them at the time of booking the training course. St John's Ambulance claimed that this ransomware attack didn't affect their operational systems, as it had been resolved inside 30min. of the outbreak. The Inquirer, Computing's sister website, was confirmed by St John Ambulance that no ransom has been paid. St John Ambulance added that its "IT teams worked hard to isolate and resolve the issue as soon as we became aware of it". The charity is confident that no data has been shared outside the St John Ambulance, but it fessed that data of everybody who have opened an account, attended or booked a training course of St John Ambulance till Feb. 2019 has been affected.