Jess Kelly

On the morning of May 14th, 2021, Conti Ransomware infiltrated the HSE IT system.

And this cyber attack led to all IT systems within the service shutting down, forcing staff to revert back to pen and paper.

And it impacted people right across the country.

It was the largest known attack against a health service system in history.

And it occurred during the pandemic, if you remember back.

to 2021 and the cost of it is estimated to be around 102 million euro.

Newstalk's tech correspondent Jess Kelly is here now to look back at the true impact of this cyber attack and ask why it's front of mind as Ireland prepares for the EU presidency.

Jess, you're taking us back to dark days now because do you remember at that point where we were with the unmentionable at the time with the pandemic, let's just say it,

It just felt like the end of days then when the ransomware attack happened on top of it.

That they had access to, yeah.

Did we ever get the answer to that question?

And now as we come towards the European Union presidency, which we will hold from July for six months.

How ready is Ireland Inc.?

How protected are we?

Jess, thank you so much.

Yeah, you're very welcome along to Tech Talk.

This is Jess Kelly with you here on News Talk, coming up over the next hour.

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And as ever, I'll answer your tech questions.