Eastern Health experienced an accidental breach of privacy of 19 patients from its Rehabilitation Program.
There’s no word on how the breach occurred.
Missing files contained information about patients of the Janeway Children’s Health and Rehabilitation Centre.
Eastern Health immediately took action and notified all those personally affected by this incident, asking them to protect their privacy.
Source: https://www.databreaches.net/ca-19-patients-affected-in-accidental-eastern-health-privacy-breach/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/easternhealthau
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"type": "Breach",
"date": "10/2016",
"severity": "25",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 19,
'industry': 'Healthcare',
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'type_of_data_compromised': 'Patient information'},
'description': 'Eastern Health experienced an accidental breach of privacy of '
'19 patients from its Rehabilitation Program. The missing '
'files contained information about patients of the Janeway '
'Children’s Health and Rehabilitation Centre. Eastern Health '
'immediately took action and notified all those personally '
'affected by this incident, asking them to protect their '
'privacy.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Patient information from the Janeway '
'Children’s Health and Rehabilitation '
'Centre']},
'response': {'communication_strategy': 'Eastern Health notified all those '
'personally affected by this incident, '
'asking them to protect their '
'privacy.'},
'title': 'Eastern Health Privacy Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}