They were victims of a massive data breach in 2009. Interior Health denied it for a decade.

They were victims of a massive data breach in 2009, and Interior Health denied it for a decade. The investigation cited by DataBreaches[.]Net shows the breach affected 28,000 health-care workers, with a 2014 discovery that multiple nurses in the maternity ward at Kelowna General Hospital had also been victims of identity theft. According to fifth estate, Ashley Stone describes a decade of “fires” to convince debt collectors she was innocent and that it has never ended.

Today a former Ontario privacy commissioner is calling for an external investigation into why the B.C. government agency denied the data breach for ten years. The piece links the long denial to a 2009 event that 28,000 workers were affected and notes Stone’s assertion that accountability is needed.