Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Cybersecurity: Discussion
Mr. Pat Larkin:
In general, if healthcare data are liberated, they are valuable to the criminals who use them. In general, if a ransom is paid and the business model does not stand up owing to data being liberated subsequently, it is an issue for them. In general, if a ransom is not paid, an organisation will not deliver the encryption keys. In this case, it seems that they have. Again, I say that with caution. Again, in general terms, if there is a threat to leak data, it needs to be delivered on for the criminals' business model to stand up.
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