Hospitals 'on their knees' after HSE cyberattack, EU told

The cybersecurity specialist at the Department of Communications Ian Roe said: 'If you don’t have communication, if you don’t have email, if you can’t talk to your employees, you can’t talk to your suppliers and you can’t talk to the authorities, that’s a difficult place to be in.'

A top Irish civil servant has told a major EU cyber security conference that some hospitals in Ireland were “on their knees” after being hit by the cyberattack on the HSE in 2021.

Ian Roe said that what “defines” a country’s cyber security capabilities is how it responds to an incident and urged other states to develop their “contingency planning” in case of such attacks.