NHS Scotland-linked domains caught serving pr0n and dodgy sports streams

Multiple domains belonging to Scottish healthcare providers have been hijacked and are now pushing links to adult content and illegal sports streams, according to a researcher.

First spotted by Nick Hatter, a former cybersecurity engineer turned psychotherapist and life coach, an influx of links hosted on a domain belonging to The New Surgery in Kilmacolm, near Glasgow, flooded Google's index in recent days.

On closer inspection, some seem to have been created as far back as January.

The landing page for the domain is not the one currently used by the practice, but it was likely used previously, given the scot.nhs.uk namespace appears to belong to a US-based web developer as a guise for the illicit content it now hosts.

• The New Surgery's current domain: www.thenewsurgery.scot.nhs.uk
• The domain hosting illicit links: thenewsurgery-kilmacolm-langbank.scot.nhs.uk 

The Register asked NHS Greater Glasgow and ...