Health PEI suffered a data breach incident after an employee’s laptop was stolen, containing information about more than 4,000 patients and more than 1,200 employees in April 2022.
The laptop contained the information about the patients’ visits to PEI emergency departments including the reason for the visit, the diagnosis, and the name of the treating physician. Names, dates of birth, health card numbers, gender, and postal code.
It also contained the personal information belonging to more than 1,200 Health PEI long-term care staff was also on the laptop, including names, positions, hours worked and rate of pay.
Health PEI sent letters to all those whose information was breached in the incident.
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-covid-privacy-health-hiv-1.6435748
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"type": "Breach",
"date": "04/2022",
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"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"