BC Health Ministry Hacked
A breach of B.C.’s PharmaNet prescription medication system has compromised enough information to commit identity theft against roughly 1,600 people, the province revealed Friday.
The Ministry of Health said an unauthorized person used a doctor’s PharmaNet account without the doctor’s knowledge to access patients’ names, birth dates, addresses, telephone numbers and personal health numbers earlier this year.
Medical histories of 34 people were also accessed in the breach, which took place between March 9 and June 19, but no fraudulent prescriptions were obtained. No banking information was taken, but the government warned the perpetrator did access enough personal details to make identity theft a concern.
