A report last week found the opening of a malicious Microsoft Excel file attached to a phishing email led to the HSE cyberattack

GARDAÍ have carried out a major operation targeting the gang behind the ransomware attack on the Health Service Executive (HSE).

A CORK businesswoman has issued a warning after her Instagram page was hacked and held for ransom. Charlene Corkery, owner of Box of Kindness, discovered on Monday that her Instagram page had been hacked.

The HSE’s Chief Operations Officer has laid bare some of the continued impacts of the cyber attack on Cork University Hospital, describing how paper records continue to need to be used, resulting in long delays.

Three weeks after the HSE was hit by a major cyberattack, a Cork emergency medicine consultant has warned that the situation facing emergency departments is far worse than Covid in terms of safety concerns.

South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital (SIVUH) has announced that normal service has resumed following the cyberattack on the HSE’s IT systems.

CORK Kerry Community Healthcare has issued an update with regards to their appointments going forward. They have confirmed that most clinics and appointments in primary care centres and health centres are going ahead as normal and as scheduled.

Cork hospitals are still operating outside of normal with many cancelling vital services for members of the public.

Cork hospitals are still operating outside of normal with many cancelling vital services for members of the public.

Hospitals and health services in Cork continue to be impacted by the cyber-attack on the HSE last week.

A Cork cyber security expert has said the encryption key is “a ray of hope” but the HSE hack is a “serious wake-up call”.

THE family of an eight-year-old Cork boy who had long-awaited health appointments cancelled as a result of the HSE hacking crisis has highlighted the severe impact it is having on some of the most vulnerable in our society.

The Irish Government has said a decryption tool has been made available following a ransomware hack of the health service IT system.