The Synnovis Ransomware Disaster: Complete Timeline and Technical Analysis
On 3 June 2024, the Qilin ransomware gang compromised Synnovis, a pathology provider serving NHS hospitals across southeast London. Blood testing collapsed. Over 10,000 appointments were cancelled. More than 1,700 operations were postponed. A patient died waiting for test results that never arrived. The attack succeeded because multi-factor authentication was not enabled. Here is the complete timeline of how a preventable security failure cascaded into catastrophic harm, the technical details of
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