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Irish health service may take six months to recover from cyber attack

Posted On: Jun. 17, 2021 9:38 AM CST

Cyber attack

Paul Reid, chief executive of Ireland’s Health Service Executive, said that it could take as long as six months for the systems to fully recover after a ransomware attack in May, The Irish Times reported citing RTE. Mr. Reid added that while progress has been made restoring an information system that links general practitioners to the health service, many of its hospitals have one hand tied behind their back.  

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