VOCM reports:
NL Health Services has another privacy breach on its hands.
The news came quietly in a news release sent out just after 5:30 Friday evening.
The breach is related to an email sent to the parents and guardians of 253 pediatric patients with diabetes.
Officials say “the recipients of that email were inadvertently not blind copied,” allowing everyone on the list to see each other’s email addresses.
Read more at VOCM.
That this type of error is still occurring in 2023 in a provincial health service is beyond frustrating. There are solutions to prevent such things (cf, this type). Why haven’t they been deployed already?