Harvey Cashore, Eva Uguen-Csenge, and Mark Kelley report:
Kelowna nurse Ashley Stone sits down at her kitchen table, opens a bulky blue folder containing a paper trail of 10 years of multiple frauds committed in her name by imposters and gets right to the point.
“It’s just been a nightmare.”
She says she’s had to repeatedly put out “fires” and convince debt collectors she was innocent.
“It’s never over,” she said. “I could be 80 years old and still be dealing with this.”
Stone says her employer, Interior Health, which runs hospitals and medical facilities in B.C.’s southeastern region, needs to be held accountable for a decade of denials of a massive data breach in 2009.
“I thought they would take it seriously,” she told fifth estate co-host Mark Kelley, recalling when, in 2014, she discovered multiple nurses in the maternity ward at Kelowna General Hospital had been victims of identity theft — at the same time.
Today, a former Ontario privacy commissioner is calling for an external investigation into why, for a decade, the B.C. government agency denied the data breach, which a fifth estate investigation shows affected 28,000 health-care workers.
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