University Hospital Limerick
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"