Health Service Executive (HSE) – primary care services, Midlands (third-party processor)
January 2, 2025
•[ ransomware, third-party processor, data protection breach ]
DataBreaches summarized reporting that the Irish Health Service Executive confirmed a second ransomware attack occurred in February 2025, targeting a third-party processor and resulting in a data protection breach reported by HSE primary care services in the Midlands. The HSE stated there was no evidence that patients data was stolen in the incident, and the brief report did not describe prolonged operational disruption or specify what systems were encrypted. Based on the confirmation of a ransomware incident affecting a processor, this is coded as a disruptive event with limited publicly available detail on scope and duration.
