Privacy & Security

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

ST. JOHN’S – A cyberattack appears to be behind a provincewide disruption of healthcare services in Newfoundland and Labrador that has affected thousands of appointments and procedures, including those involving COVID-19 testing. “We may have been victims of a possible cyberattack by a third party,” said Health Minister John Haggie at a news conference. Read More

KEMPTVILLE, Ont. – The Kemptville hospital has reopened its emergency department, with the help of other local hospitals, as an investigation continues into a “cybersecurity incident” that caused a hospital-wide IT shutdown. Read More

TORONTO – Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN) says a list of staff who are unvaccinated for COVID-19, have a medical reason for not being vaccinated, or haven’t declared their vaccination status, was accidentally emailed out to dozens of people in what a UHN spokesperson called a “breach of privacy.” Read More

FREDERICTON – The parents of a 16-year-old girl who committed suicide were initially prevented from seeing their daughter’s medical records at Horizon Health, where she went for treatment. The parents of Lexi Daken (pictured) are now being allowed to see the records – but only her last two visits, and only by agreeing not to share the records with media or other third parties, except legal advisers. Read More