HSE brace for likely legal actions following cyber breach disclosures

Image: Shutterstock PATIENTS AND STAFF whose information was illegally accessed during the criminal cyber-attack on the HSE last year could take legal action against the health service but the executive remains tight-lipped on the scale of litigation it is expecting.

People being notified are being sent a letter telling them what part of their personal information was impacted. The HSE is also apologising in the letters to the people being notified that this happened. Fred Logue, a solicitor who works for a firm specialising in data protection and information law, told The Journal that patients and staff are entitled to compensation for material and non-material losses under general data protection regulation .

The HSE said it has been monitoring the internet including the dark web since the cyber-attack and has seen no evidence at this point that the illegally accessed and copied data has been used for any criminal purposes or been published online. If they’re trying to say that it was limited, they only got your pin number – that’s limited information, but it’s enough to get into your bank account. Or saying no pin numbers were disclosed for example, but maybe your password was disclosed.

“Say for example, it was highly sensitive information, like a trans person who was undergoing gender reassignment, and that’s disclosed, that would be a very, very significant impact on them. Whereas if it was the fact that you had been to the doctor once or whatever and didn’t really give any details about what it was about, that would probably be on the lower end of the spectrum,” he said.

There’s a lot of delay here. It’s really odd that they’ve taken over a year-and-a-half to notify people and they’re saying that they’re not going to finish notifying people until April next year. Logue believes that the nature of what was stolen will determine whether people will file a legal claim or not.

the scale is obvious, the number of scam calls went up when this happened.

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