Breaking: Ontario is about to inform 360,000 people about vaccine data breach that compromised their info
in the province’s COVID-19 vaccination management system.
For more than 95 per cent of them, “only names and/or phone numbers were impacted,” the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery said in a statement Friday that did not detail what personal information was released from about 18,000 others.The data breach of the COVaxON system took place on Nov. 16, 2021. Five days later, Ontario Provincial Police charged two charged two individuals with unauthorized use of a computer.
An investigation began after the government received reports of spam text messages from people who had scheduled appointments or accessed their vaccination certificates through the vaccination booking system.The government has been working with the OPP and the provincial privacy commissioner for the last year “to determine the scale and impact of the breach,” said the statement from the office of Kaleed Rasheed, the minister of service delivery.
“Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine booking system is regularly monitored and tested as part of the ministry of health’s cybersecurity protocols and we remain confident that the booking system continues to be a safe and secure tool for Ontarians to use,” it said.
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