Irish health service hit by ‘very sophisticated’ ransomware attack
By Padraic Halpin
DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland’s health service operator shut down all its IT applications on Friday to protect them from a “very important” ransomware attack, crippling diagnostic firms, disrupting COVID-19 testing and forcing hospitals to cancel many appointments.
Ireland’s COVID-19 vaccination programme was not disrupted because it’s on a particular system, nonetheless the attack was affecting IT applications serving all totally different native and nationwide health provision, the top of the Health Service Executive (HSE) acknowledged.
The HSE shut down the IT applications as a precaution to protect as so much knowledge as doable and was assessing how the attack would impact totally different firms, Chief Executive Paul Reid acknowledged.
Reid acknowledged the cyber attack, discovered inside the early hours of Friday morning, was a “human-operated ransomware attack the place they could search to get right of entry to …
