HSE to notify 100,000 patients over cyberattack data breach

The Department of Health spent €1m in 2021 reviewing IT processes following the cyberattack and the HSE incurred costs of €51m in its immediate response. Picture: PA

The HSE has sent 32,000 letters to patients whose data was breached during the cyberattack on its network in 2021, but only 220 people have responded.

HSE chief information officer Fran Thompson said about 100,000 notifications will be issued. Addressing the matter at a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), he said: “They will be complete by April 2023. The latest figure I have is over 32,000 notification letters have been issued.”