they did when I registered for the Covid Vac. No idea why.
Hacked Medical records (HSE)
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I always presumed it was an additional check to make sure you are who you say you are
Laughahalla
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My GP asked for my PPS number very recently when I was getting the Covid vaccine.
First of all, you will need the Tor browser to surf the dark web, then spend hours going from forum to forum to find links to popular market sites (dark web is isn't indexed by the likes of Google search engine). However, don't expect to stumble across your data. The perpetrators of this attack run this as a business, so they don't give away the data for free. They'll likely publish snippets to prove they have valuable data and package up the rest for sale to scammers.
Update:
HSE say that if they are alerted to data being published online they will notify the Data Protection Commission & take the "necessary action".
Not sure if that includes contacting the impacted person & letting them know what has been published.
Link: https://www2.hse.ie/services/cyber-attack/if-you-are-affected-by-a-data-breach.html
HSE say that if they are alerted to data being published online they will notify the Data Protection Commission & take the "necessary action".
Not sure if that includes contacting the impacted person & letting them know what has been published.
Link: https://www2.hse.ie/services/cyber-attack/if-you-are-affected-by-a-data-breach.html
I agree, who cares if they find out I've had my appendix out etc.
This man cares his cancer treatment information is available online and is suing mercy hospital cork.
The solicitor in question has written a post - I'd have to agree with a great deal of what is said here.
www.odowd.ie
I find it astonishing that people don't think this is a big deal; the "I don't care, so I don't see why anyone else should" response is quite incredible.
HSE Cyber Attack - July Update - O'Dowd Solicitors LLP
It remains something of a surprise to us that there [...]
www.odowd.ie
I find it astonishing that people don't think this is a big deal; the "I don't care, so I don't see why anyone else should" response is quite incredible.
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I have unfortunately lots of medical issues - many of them I couldn't care less if they were on the dark web! If someone knows I had an operation for gall stones I don't care however there are some issues I certainly wouldn't like publicly known! after reading the article by the solicitor it worries me a little as I've had loads of scam calls lately - one day I counted 12.
I would hope that if the HSE knew that any information regarding me was on the web that they would tell me.
I would hope that if the HSE knew that any information regarding me was on the web that they would tell me.
I don't believe that will happen.
Again, it's not a question of what any person might be comfortable or otherwise being made public; *all* medical information is private and confidential and the paucity of response and action from HSE is disgraceful.
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I was shocked to get a letter today from HSE saying my medical information had been part of the group hacked during the cyber attack. I thought it was all so long ago that I'd have known by now. My name, PPS, And medical information. As many have said on this thread there are many pieces of medical info I couldn't care less about but there are some things that are very private that I would hate if they ever became public. I'm just wondering what if anything should I be doing about this? What , if anything, have other people done? Theres a contact number on the letter which i will contact but would they even know if anything s published about me?
If you received a letter from the HSE about the cyber-attack
We are writing to people whose personal information was illegally accessed and copied during the cyber attack on the HSE. Read advice if you have received a letter from us about the cyber attack.
www2.hse.ie
NoRegretsCoyote
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I know it's upsetting but as above, it's extremely unlikely that anyone you know will ever stumble across any of your confidential medical information.
The HSE have said the below. I suspect they have paid serious money to cybersecurity consultants on this for assurance and they would not be so categorical if they weren't very sure.
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Reading this evening that HSE will pay approx €750 to those who have initiated a claim against it with regard to this data breach.
What about those who didn't start any proceedings initially, can they pursue a case now?
What about those who didn't start any proceedings initially, can they pursue a case now?
Probably but why would they?
The HSE is going to offer €750 to each claimant, plus a contribution of €650 towards their legal costs. Presumably anyone who can actually point to a concrete loss or harm that they suffered as a result of the data breach will not accept that — they'll hold out for compensation commensurate with the harm they have suffered. So this looks like an attempt to clean out opportunistic or nuisance claims at relatively little cost. (It will, of course, only work to the extent that people accept the offer.)
Will it lead to a flood of new claims? I suspect not. The HSE is under no obligation to make the same offer to everyone who brings a claim. Anyone who hasn't claimed up to now, but now makes a claim. does look like a chancer and the HSE may well decide to make them no offer at all, at least intitially, and simply wait to see how far they push their claims.
Lawyers who work on a no-foal no-fee basis are not going to be interested in acting for clients who want to lodge a claim in the hope of getting an offer of €750 + €650 — there's a more than sporting chance that the offer will not be made to new claimants, and even if it is the fee the lawyer might hope to get (€650 plus some slice of the €750) would be small. Between those two factors I don't think the business will be hugely attrractive to lawyers who work on contingency fees. So I think anyone wanting to lodge a claim is either going to have to pay lawyers to act for them (with no guarantee of getting even an offer of €750) or is going to have to proceed without a lawyer — which you can do, but it takes a fair amount of time and energy for a very uncertain return.
More than 90,000 people were affected by the breach; only between 600 and 700 have made a claim, which means that the vast majority of people don't think they have suffered any harm, or at any rate they don't think they have suffered any harm that could be meaningfully compensated for with money. I don't think many will be encouraged to lay out good money now for the somewhat uncertain chance of someday getting an offer of €750.
Will it lead to a flood of new claims? I suspect not. The HSE is under no obligation to make the same offer to everyone who brings a claim. Anyone who hasn't claimed up to now, but now makes a claim. does look like a chancer and the HSE may well decide to make them no offer at all, at least intitially, and simply wait to see how far they push their claims.
Lawyers who work on a no-foal no-fee basis are not going to be interested in acting for clients who want to lodge a claim in the hope of getting an offer of €750 + €650 — there's a more than sporting chance that the offer will not be made to new claimants, and even if it is the fee the lawyer might hope to get (€650 plus some slice of the €750) would be small. Between those two factors I don't think the business will be hugely attrractive to lawyers who work on contingency fees. So I think anyone wanting to lodge a claim is either going to have to pay lawyers to act for them (with no guarantee of getting even an offer of €750) or is going to have to proceed without a lawyer — which you can do, but it takes a fair amount of time and energy for a very uncertain return.
More than 90,000 people were affected by the breach; only between 600 and 700 have made a claim, which means that the vast majority of people don't think they have suffered any harm, or at any rate they don't think they have suffered any harm that could be meaningfully compensated for with money. I don't think many will be encouraged to lay out good money now for the somewhat uncertain chance of someday getting an offer of €750.
I would suggest the "vast majority" don't know if their data was leaked; since no one from the HSE bothered to contact them.
It might not be worth legal fees, but it would certainly be worth a letter, envelope and the price of a stamp.
They contacted the more than 100,000 affected people between February and April. They didn't bother to contact the few million that were not impacted.