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21st May 2021
09:29am BST

"The main thing that people will want to hear, and be absolutely assured on, is that no ransom was paid directly or indirectly," Donnelly said.
He also added there had been "positive" initial results to the decryption key, but said work was continuing and there's still the possibility that data will be released next week. "It is entirely possible [there will be a data dump on Monday], and this sort of approach is quite standard procedure in these kinds of attacks," Donnelly said. "The position for anybody, because I know some people really are worried, if anyone were to be contacted about their personal information, is to contact the Gardaí. "There's a confidential helpline, it's 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It's 1800 666 111. "As for Monday, we're certainly taking it very seriously that there could well be a data dump."Explore more on these topics: