University Hospital Limerick experienced data security incident.
It investigated staff over the alleged leaking of confidential patient information as well as derogatory Facebook posts.
Serious distress was created to a bereaved family and equally distress to the consultant and their team providing care.
The hospital group was unable to ensure compliance with data protection regulation and reported as a data breach.
There were 51 patients waiting for admission to UHL due to the incident.
"id": "UNI203961222",
"linkid": "university-hospital-limerick",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "01/2020",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"
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