HSE recorded over 2000 data breaches last year

Solicitor Jason O’Sullivan says many data-breaches are down to human error. “Although the level of breaches, they appear quite minor – such as post going to the wrong address – they can still have a negative impact on patients causing them to miss important appointments, for instance. “The quite large number of breaches across the country does denote the sheer scale of sensitive data the HSE deal with daily”.

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