NUH data breach: Maternity database overwritten during routine IT work
The trust restored clinical notes but could not recover the full audit history for records covering 2011 to 2022, officials said.
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NUH data breach: Maternity database overwritten during routine IT work
A database containing historic maternity records for women and babies treated at Nottingham University Hospitals was accidentally overwritten during routine technical work, the trust has revealed. The incident happened on 18 August 2026 while staff were attempting to create a copy of a radiotherapy database for reporting purposes. NUH said a set of pre-written computer […]
The hospital network of the University of Nottingham has re-recorded the database of the maternity ward for 11 years, all because someone forgot to change the settings in a reused set of instructions. This was all done this August, when the staff doing the planned technical work of copying the radiation therapy database used pre-prepared instructions.
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