SHARE Medical and personal information stolen from Ireland’s health service in a ransomware attack last week is now being shared online after the service refused to pay the demanded ransom. The ransomware attack by the Conti ransomware was first detected on the health service’s IT systems late last week, crippling diagnostic services, disrupting COVID-19 testing and forcing hospitals to cancel appointments. Disruptions are ongoing today. Ireland’s Health Services Executive advised that patients needing nonurgent care will experience long delays from “IT issues and manual work arrangements.” “This criminal ransomware attack has had a significant impact on hospital appointments and there continues to be major disruptions,” the HSE said. “Work continues today in assessing the impact and beginning to restore HSE IT systems. This work will take many weeks and we anticipate major disruption will continue due to the shutdown of our IT systems.”