Significant ransomware attack causes Irish healthcare IT shutdown
Ireland’s healthcare service has temporarily been forced to shut down its computer systems as a precaution following a significant ransomware attack.
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No guarantee sensitive medical information won’t be leaked online after cyberattack – HSE
The HSE is unable to reassure people that their sensitive medical information will not be leaked online.
It comes after the health service fell victim to a significant ransomware attack in the early hours of Friday morning.
A ransomware’ attack involves hackers gaining access to an entity’s data and threatening to publish it or encrypt it unless a ‘ransom’ is paid.
The Government has insisted Ireland “not be paying any ransom” to the hackers and the HSE is currently working to rebuild its system from “clean backup data.”
On Newstalk Breakfast this morning, HSE Chief Operating Officer Anne O’Connor said there is no guarantee those behind the attack will not publish people’s private medical information.
“We know that the data has been encrypted but we don’t know what data has been taken,” she said.
“The nature of this attack is that data is encrypted and potentially stolen. We are working through that at the moment but we don’t know what data if any is gone.
“We do know that some data has been compromised but that is as much as we know and our teams are working through that now to determine what data has been impacted
“That work is still underway and unfortunately, we can’t give assurance in terms of what data may or may not have been stolen.
“We have been in contact with the Data Protection Commission that there has been a potential breach but in terms of the nature of that, but we are not sure of that yet and that work is underway in terms of mapping what that data might be.”
Pressed on whether she can offer people with sensitive medical issues any reassurance that their information will be posted online, she said: “I am not able to reassure them.”
“We are currently trying to determine what data has been impacted by this,” she said. “We have no evidence that anything is up on the web or has been stolen but as I said, that is being worked through today and over the coming days.”
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