Friday, 24 March, 2023

Irish Healthcare System to spend $100M to recover from Conti ransomware attack

<p>The Irish Healthcare System has spent more than $48M to recover from the Conti ransomware attack. CIO of the system, Fran Thompson said that they are expecting the end cost of the recovery to be over $100M without including the cost of implementing the recommendations to prevent such attacks. The attack took place last year and it shut down the entire healthcare system which included a vaccine portal for Covid-19 and several outages of outpatient services.</p>