Interior Health seeking former employees after police discover large data breach
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Interior Health says former employees who worked there from 2003-09 should contact them to see if their personal information was contained in a document found by police.
Did you work for Interior Health between 2003 and 2009?
If so, the health agency is looking to get in touch.
On Thursday, IHA said it’s trying to contact former employees after a large data breach was discovered by police.
“In January, the Vernon North Okanagan RCMP informed IH about a document discovered during an investigation that contained personal information of individuals, including current and former employees of IH,” said the health agency.
“The information seized by police included names, dates of birth, social insurance numbers, home addresses, phone numbers, and the individuals’ age in 2009. The document provided to IH has more than 20,000 names on it.”
Interior Health said no patient information was included in the document retrieved by RCMP.
“IH has confirmed there are approximately 7,000 current employees listed and are taking steps to notify them,” said Interior Health.
“Due to the age of the data and its broad scope, IH is not able to accurately confirm the former employee information, nor where the information came from.”