Haggie downplays cyber-risk 'business proposal,' says threat assessment found no red flags.Haggie - then health minister - minimized the significance of that report's findings, describing it as "a business development proposal."Īt the time, Haggie told reporters he independently asked NLCHI for a threat assessment of cyber systems in September 2020 - around the same time the Eastern Health report was completed. cyberattack, report flagged flaws in system
The details were in a business plan prepared for the regional health authority in September 2020 and obtained by CBC/Radio-Canada. Israeli cyberexperts who reviewed information security arrangements at Eastern Health confirmed "numerous vulnerabilities, security concerns and compliance issues" that needed to be addressed within its network. Haggie referenced the 2020 cybersecurity threat assessment when speaking with reporters in May to rebut a CBC Investigates story. The headquarters of the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information are located in St. Haggie noted that, in the health portfolio, "you get a lot of summary documents, and you trust the information that you're given." "It was from a summary from NLCHI provided to me," he said. So he made those comments about "no red flags" and no issues of concern based on what somebody had summarized for him, not from his primary source reading of this document? "I was presented with a summary at the time and that's where the 'no red flags' came from," Haggie replied. My memory is a little hazy now as to exactly what that was, but I do recall making some comments about increased investment in IT and security." My recollection of it is that we took that with Health and Community Services at the time, and have gone to Treasury Board over the course of the period subsequently to look for increased investment. "The issue of 'no red flags' was words that were supplied to me by NLCHI at the time," Haggie replied. This week, CBC News asked Haggie, now the minister of education, how he would now characterize those warnings about "significant" vulnerabilities, in the context of his past "no red flags" comment. Newfoundland and Labrador's health-care system suffered a devastating cyberattack by a ransomware group in the fall of 2021. Recent court filings by the government have revealed previously redacted details of that report, which warned of "significant IT vulnerabilities."
Former provincial health minister John Haggie does not appear to have read a 2020 threat assessment that he publicly said last year "highlighted no red flags" about the state of health-care cybersecurity in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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