Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The briefings we have in terms of timelines are as follows: on Thursday, suspicious activity was detected by the Department of Health’s IT team. It contacted the National Cyber Security Centre, which provided technical advice on what to do in response. Further to that, there were attacks on both the Department of Health’s systems and the HSE’s systems. The information we have been provided with is that those attacks commenced at 3 a.m. on Friday. None of the briefings we have had since have contained any information on ongoing attacks on either the Department of Health or HSE systems.

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