HSE fire officer who lost €1,400 in cryptocurrency through work phone loses appeal

The court heard he acknowledged that using the phone for personal emails was not an acceptable use of the device

The man said in June/July 2021, he discovered that his personal email accounts had been hacked along with his personal cryptocurrency account and that his work mobile was the source or cause of the hack. File picture: Getty Images

A HSE fire prevention officer has lost an appeal over a refusal of the Data Protection Commission (DPC) to investigate an alleged data breach connected to the use of his work phone for personal use.

Eamon McShane, Burtonport, Co Donegal, claimed he lost €1,400 in cryptocurrency as a result of the May 2021 cyberattack on the HSE computer system.