HSE to 'robustly' defend 400 lawsuits brought about by 2021 cyberattack

Early this year, the HSE said that about 100,000 notifications were to be delivered to patients whose data had been breached as a result of the attack. File picture: iStock

The HSE has been sued more than 400 times in the fall-out from the massive cyberattack which brought its systems to a halt in 2021, but said it will defend those claims “robustly”.

The vast majority of the lawsuits—398 of 404—are linked to GDPR or data protection claims, with the remainder filed as personal injury actions.