Patient data may have been accessed during ‘cybersecurity incident’ at Scarborough Health Network - Toronto | Globalnews.ca

has issued a public notice warning of a “cybersecurity incident” that may have resulted in patient data being accessed.said the issue was identified on Jan. 25 and the health network “immediately retained” a cybersecurity team to conduct an investigation and contain the incident.

SHN said patent data including ID numbers, names, genders, birth dates, email addresses, home addresses, OHIP numbers, lab reports, procedure descriptions, insurance policy numbers, immunization statuses, diagnosis information, as well as staff names, physician names and numbers may have been accessed.“This could affect both past and present patient data from all SHN hospitals,” the statement said.

Only those who were admitted to an SHN hospital, received in-patient care and had the vaccination information included in their patient chart may have had it exposed, the statement said.

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