Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan, Mr Donnell, Minister for Justice Heather Humphreys and Minister of State for Communications Ossian Smyth met on Saturday.
The threat by hackers to publish stolen data on Monday s being taken seriously by the Government. Mr Smyth told RTE news âWe are going to prepare in case it does happenâ.
Gardaà are concerned a protracted wave of scam attacks could follow if data potentially relating to millions of people, which may have been stolen in an attack on the HSE, is published or sold on to other criminals.
Earlier on Saturday HSE chief executive Paul Reid said the process for unlocking network remains âfraught with riskâ .
Reason behind sharing of decryption tool in HSE cyber attack still unclear
Minister of State Niall Collins has confirmed that work is still ongoing to determine whether the decryption key is functional. By Lauren Boland Saturday 22 May 2021, 2:51 PM 2 hours ago 10,925 Views 24 Comments
Junior Minister Niall Collins (file photo)
Image: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie
Image: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie
IT IS “STILL unclear” why a decryption key has been made available in the HSE cyber attack, a minister said today.
A decryption tool that might help the HSE to unlock its IT system following the widespread cyber attack last week is available online.
More than one in five Irish people could be on hospital waiting lists by end of 2021 , Sinn Fein warns
There are already almost 900,000 people on a variety of waiting lists for procedures in our hospitals and clinics
Sinn Fein spokesperson on Health David Cullinane TD (Image: Gareth Chaney/Collins)
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She said: “The level of funding is probably the biggest problem that we have - in Ireland, only 5% of the health budget goes towards mental health. In the UK, New Zealand, the Netherlands. it’s around 12-13%.
“I think we know most people in society prioritise mental health care, and are very tuned in to this… unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to translate into Government policy.
“The services we have are quite significantly stretched - and that was before COVID. COVID has brought its own challenges, and that’s going to create more pressures into the future unless something is done about it.