The Health Service Executive (HSE) remains in “a state of very high risk” 20 days after a crippling cyber attack with only 30,000 of its 80,000 devices cleaned and “switched on” again, a senior official has said. Outside consultants are helping the HSE restore computer systems following the cyberattack that chief executive Paul Reid has said will likely cost at least €100 million. Ms O’Connor said the HSE was “gradually bringing emails back” and that about 34,000 “HealthIRL” emails - just one of nine email systems used across the HSE - were coming back. At least 80 per cent of the devices across the children’s hospitals have been affected by the cyber attack. We can’t answer that because until systems are back, we won’t know what activities we have lost,” she said.

Source: The Irish Times June 02, 2021 18:22 UTC