On The Ground Reporting Shows How Dangerous And Destructive Ransomware Is.

I noticed this chilling first hand account from Ireland the other day. A week from hell as health service grapples with cyberattack The HSE has had its hardest year dealing with Covid. Now it has had its hardest week 21 May, 2021 Paul Cullen Health Editor Fifteen months into a pandemic, just when it seemed things were looking up, along came the cyberattack to upend the health service and deliver the week from hell. “The hardest six days of my working life,” was how paediatric radiologist Dr Gabrielle Collerandescribed her state of exhaustion after a week of shutdowns and work-arounds in the Dublin hospitals where she works. “A major disaster,” said Dr Vida Hamilton, who as the HSE’s national clinical adviser for acute operations played a central role in trying to prevent the system coming to a complete collapse. “We know nothing about the individual. We have no charts, no record number.” This experience of “flying blind” was widespread across the system; from oncologists deprived... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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