Privacy & Security

ST. JOHN’S, NL – Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest health authority has notified 37,800 people that their privacy was breached as part of last fall’s devastating cyberattack. That number equates to about one in every 13 people in the province. And according to Eastern Health, it could go even higher, CBC News reported. Those affected include patients, along with current and former employees. Read More

CHARLOTTETOWN – Health PEI is notifying the public of a recent privacy breach as the result of a stolen laptop. In early April, an employee’s laptop was stolen, containing information about more than 4,000 patients and more than 1,200 Health PEI employees. The laptop theft was reported to police the following day. Read More

TORONTO – The Scarborough Health Network (SHN), which includes three hospitals and eight satellite sites, said some of its servers containing a variety of personal patient details were recently breached. The hospital said its IT department first noticed “unusual activity” on its servers Jan. 25. Its investigation with cybersecurity experts found past and present patient data may have been accessed. Read More

ARNPRIOR, Ont. – Arnprior Regional Health says a cyber-attack compromising data dating back decades has taken place. The health network became aware of the hack on its IT system on Dec. 21, 2021. Information affected includes patient names, dates of birth, contact information, health card numbers, recent hospital visits, and diagnoses. Read More

WATERLOO, Ont. – BlackBerry Limited has announced the release of the QNX Hypervisor 2.2 for Safety, the latest edition of the company’s safety-certified, real-time embedded hypervisor product, designed to enable the healthcare industry to deliver safe, secure medical devices and applications to market faster. Read More

TORONTO – SailPoint, a leading provider of enterprise Identity Security software, has announced the expansion of its healthcare vertical to the Canadian provider market. The Austin, Texas based cybersecurity company is an analyst favourite in the Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) industry. SailPoint has a well-established install base serving many of the large US health networks. Building on that success, and through their new technology partnership with AWS Canada, SailPoint is now offering its multi-tenant SaaS solution, IdentityNow, to Canadian providers. Read More

IQALUIT – Nunavut’s information and privacy commissioner calls an unprotected government network drive he discovered last year a “privacy nightmare,” and says most of the departments affected by the breach have done little to respond to the problem. “I was shocked by what I was able to see,” Graham Steele (pictured) said to Nunatsiaq News, following his release of a Jan. 28 report about his findings. Read More

YELLOWKNIFE, NWT – In his latest annual report, information and privacy commissioner Andrew Fox (pictured) said his office received notice of several “significant breaches of privacy” involving the COVID-19 Secretariat’s use of email. “It is apparent that privacy breaches are too frequently caused by staff who are under-resourced, or untrained in, or unaware of the policies and procedures governing privacy protection,” Fox wrote. Read More

ORANGEVILLE, Ont. – Headwaters Health Care Centre has confirmed the cause of suspicious email activity that led to the shutdown of their internal systems, and the closure of the COVID-19 assessment centre. Read More