10 days after ransomware attack, Irish health system struggling

Ireland's hospitals still struggling a week after massive cyberattack leaves most without computers.

Dublin -- Staff coming into work at several Dublin hospitals on Friday, May 14 found an unsettling sight: Throughout the building, every computer screen was dark. It was the result of the massive ransomware attack that crippled Ireland's health service's IT systems and that has left most of the country's hospitals without computers for over a week. The outage has wreaked chaos, forcing the mass cancellation of routine appointments, blocking access to patients' records, hobbling testing and some key treatment services, including for cancer patients. It will likely be weeks before the systems are fully recovered, and each day it continues, more of a backlog is created, which puts pressure on medical workers. Meanwhile, the criminal gang behind the attack is threatening to release patient data it stolen during it.