ST. JOHN’S, NL – A proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed over the cyberattack on Newfoundland and Labrador’s healthcare system that took place in the fall of 2021. The attack, carried out by cyber-thieves affiliated with the Hive ransomware group, stole both personal medical information as well as employee information from thousands of people.
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VANCOUVER – Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre told clients and donors a backup server containing their personal information was stolen from its new office on Dec. 3. Police say they are investigating the theft.
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SARNIA, Ont. – A group of southwestern Ontario hospitals is facing a potential $480-million class action lawsuit after at least 270,000 patients in the region had their data breached and reportedly sold by hackers on the dark web.
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WINDSOR, Ont. – CEOs of the five southwestern Ontario hospitals hit by a ransomware attack answered questions from the media last week, acknowledging the significant impact the incident has had on care, as well as the large amount of stolen data. The hospital CEOs also stood behind IT provider TransForm, saying they are “confident” the group is working hard to get systems back online, with a priority on clinical services.
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WINDSOR, Ont. – All five southwestern Ontario hospitals impacted by a cyberattack just over two weeks ago will rebuild their networks from scratch, the hospitals say in an update. But the hospitals also say the investigation into precisely whose data was taken in the attack is expected to take months.
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SARNIA, Ont. – A cyber-attack on southwestern Ontario hospitals has led to computer system outages at the hospitals and patient delays. The thieves have put a third set of patient data on the Internet’s ‘dark web’, but the hospitals have all refused to pay a ransom. The cyberattack on Oct. 23 affected IT systems at Windsor Regional Hospital, Erie Shores HealthCare, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare, Bluewater Health and Chatham-Kent Health Alliance. It has also delayed appointments for patients.
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TORONTO – A major downtown Toronto hospital is investigating what it calls a data security incident. Michael Garron Hospital, part of a group of healthcare institutions called the Toronto East Health Network, said on its website that it learned of the incident on October 26.
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WINDSOR, Ont. – Weapons detectors were installed in the emergency rooms at both Windsor Regional Hospital campuses in mid-October and just a few days later, they had already discovered items that are not welcome at the hospital. “We have found a couple of knives have been confiscated,” president and CEO of Windsor Regional Hospital David Musyj told CTV News. “We also found some other items that could be used for inappropriate uses.”
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TORONTO – One of Ontario’s respected healthcare privacy experts, Darcelle Hall (pictured), has joined OCINet on a full-time, permanent basis as Privacy Program lead. Darcelle has worked with OCINet (via HDIRS) on privacy matters on contract since 2017 and assumed the role of full-time privacy manager on October 2, 2023.
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TORONTO – An Ontario government agency that manages data about pregnancy and newborn children in the province says the personal health information of about 3.4 million people was impacted by a data breach. The Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN) said in an update on Monday that the May 31 cybersecurity incident was linked to the global privacy breach of the file transfer system MoveIt – the same software that exposed the personal information of some 100,000 Nova Scotians last spring.
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