Many numbers have been linked to the cyberattack on Newfoundland and Labrador’s health-care system in the fall of 2021.
More than a half million people in the province, most of whom had their privacy breached.
More than 200,000 files on an Eastern Health network drive, accessed and taken.
More than 200 gigabytes of data exfiltrated, or stolen, by cyberthieves affiliated with the Hive ransomware gang.
But there is another number that perhaps best describes the lack of resources in the system before everything went wrong: three.
That’s how many IT security staff there were for the entire provincial health system, according to a post-attack report by
