Nearly 80% of HSE servers and devices decrypted following cyberattack

HSE CEO, Paul Reid, and HSE COO, Anne O'Connor. Picture: Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland

The vast majority of the HSE's servers have been decrypted after the damaging cyberattack, which is likely to cost the health service half a billion euro. 

It has now decrypted 80% of its servers taken out of action by a ransomware cyberattack in May, though the road back to full capacity is still likely to be a long one, senior staff have said.