The Barbados Statistical Service (BSS) and the Barbados Revenue Authority (BRA) are still recuperating from the impact of data breaches last year.
The BSS breach was on October 30, coming after a data hack on October 1 targeting BRA and releasing volumes of information containing personal vehicle registration data.
Minister of Innovation, Industry, Science and Technology Senator Jonathan Reid said yesterday the affected agencies had to rebuild their data sets.
“The public would be well aware that there were incidents that occurred which are powerful costs for any country . . . in this day and age, and there were some areas of significant strengthening that needed to take place. The areas of entry have been blocked, which is significant of course and the response time around those things in the grand scheme of things were not bad,” he told the Sunday Sun after a coding event on Artificial Intelligence Fraud Detection, held at the Henry Fraser Lecture Theatre, University of West Indies, Cave Hill.
Reid, who took on the ministerial role two months ago, said cybersecurity was his primary mandate.
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