“These costs are enormous – we could have paid a lot of nurses or built a lot of health infrastructure with this €80 million, had the Government not left us so exposed to a cyberattack.
A report on the incident published last December found that the opening of a malicious Microsoft Excel file attached to a phishing email led to the cyberattack that crippled the health service for weeks. The file was opened at a HSE workstation in March 2021, two months before ransomware “detonated”.
The Cabinet was told last month that to date there is “no evidence” of publication of HSE or Tusla data online, although the health service continues to monitor the dark and public web.
We now have our HSE servers with Amazon on a multi million euro contract. Odd isn't it that such an attack needed large servers in the first place. I guess we'll never know the reason for the attack or find out who the perpetrators were.
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