Court hears of alleged demand for over €140,000 to ‘maintain integrity’ of patient data in company’s possession
The judge granted an interim injunction restraining PMD Device Solutions Ltd from selling, transferring or providing access to patient data to any third party outside of the HSE . Photograph: Collinsto ransom by allegedly demanding more than €140,000 from it to “maintain the integrity” of sensitive patient data in its possession and threatening to sell the data.
As the application was made ex parte, PMD Device Solutions was not represented in court and has not yet had an opportunity to respond to the claims made in court. The HSE says that PMD Device Solutions chief executive Myles Murray wrote in a January 13th email to the HSE that third parties “will be able to begin bidding and purchasing” on the company’s assets “within 12 days”, after which the company “will have no ability to stand over the integrity of the data”.
This correspondence “demonstrates an outrageous attempt to hold the HSE to ransom over the integrity of the personal data”, the HSE says.
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