If more Barbadians considered the number of institutions and businesses who are in possession of detailed personal and sensitive information about us, they would take the matter of cyber-attacks more seriously.This week, we learned from officials of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), our primary health care institution, that it had been attacked by hackers, who succeeded in crippling some aspects of the hospital’s operations.If that was not bad enough, we later learned that the attack had also impacted operations of the Harrison Point Isolation Facility, which was established to care for the sickest patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.The attacks have not been limited to the public sector.
