NHS Scotland domains reportedly found serving adult content and illegal sport streams

Date:
Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:58:04 +0000

Description:
A legacy website was compromised and used to promote inappropriate content, but has since been defaced.

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defaced Site used to host porn, gambling, and illegal streams No evidence of patient data or NHS systems compromised The legacy website of a Scottish NHS trust was seemingly hacked and used to distribute pornography, illegal sports streams, and other inappropriate content.

Former cybersecurity expert Nick Hatter took to X to warn the UK government and other relevant parties about a breach at a government website:
NHSScotland has been hacked and is linking to porn sites, malware, gambling, amongst other nasty things, he said, before sharing a list of compromised URLs. Please check your patient records have not been compromised, he added. Article continues below You may like Hack on French medical site sees over 15 million records leaked, including private health info Companies House online filing back to normal after glitch allowed users to change directors' details Another top adult site reveals data leak - Frivol says around 479,000 users may be affected Defaced website Investigating the matter further, The
Register found the site belongs to The New Surgery in Kilmacolm, near
Glasgow, but that it is not the one currently being used by the practice.

The New Surgery's current domain is www.thenewsurgery.scot.nhs.uk, while the compromised one is thenewsurgery-kilmacolm-langbank.scot.nhs.uk. Looking at the website now, it is completely defaced, and carries a large NHS Scotland logo with a short message:

Due to unforeseen technical issues, the "The New Surgery (Kilmacolm)" website is currently unavailable. We are working to resolve the issues and hope to have the site back up as soon as possible. Someone has obviously taken
notice.

A spokesperson for the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC), Scotland's largest health board and the one that oversees The New Surgery, told The Register its cybersecurity team was now working with Public Services Delivery Scotland's Cyber Centre of Excellence to support an independent GP practice after being made aware that a legacy website had been compromised. Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting
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This affects a legacy website that was independently set up and managed by
the GP practice, and there is no evidence the practice's primary website, or any NHS Scotland systems locally or nationally, were compromised."

The NHS National Services Scotland (NSS), which administers the scot.nhs.uk domain, said its not aware of any personal or sensitive data exposed as a result of the incident. Primary websites, as well as NHS Scotland systems locally and nationally, have not been compromised. The best antivirus for all budgets Our top picks, based on real-world testing and comparisons

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