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Info from 5.6 million patient visits among data stolen in ransomware attack on Ontario hospital

Posted on November 6, 2023 by Dissent

Kathleen Saylors and Jennifer La Grassa report:

A database containing information on 5.6 million patient visits to Bluewater Health and the social insurance numbers of as many as 1,446 Chatham-Kent Health Alliance employees are among the data taken in the ransomware attack on five southwestern Ontario hospitals, officials said in a lengthy update Monday.

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According to the joint statement from the hospitals, attackers were able to steal data from a shared file server that included patient data of “varied amounts and sensitivity.”

“The stolen data is in many formats, some of which are easier to analyze,” officials said in their statement.

Also targeted was a Bluewater Health patient database report.

Read more at CBC. Their article lists the summary of what the hospitals have determined so far in terms of what data was acquired. DataBreaches also reported on the third tranche of data on November 5.

The notice on Bluewater Health‘s site today provides the full update. A copy of the media update is also embedded below this post.

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