NSW Health leaks medical staff information online
Australia's NSW Health leaked personal and professional information of medical staff online. Doctors protested the leak, and the specific scale of damage, date of the incident and follow-up measures have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- NSW Health
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Personal and professional information of medical staff
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- Australia
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Timeline
- NSW Health's online information leak and doctors' backlash against it came to light.
- The NSW Health medical staff information leak received further coverage.
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Impact: Approximately 4 GB of external healthcare provider data, according to police estimates
A server linked to NSW Health’s dental care assistance scheme in Australia was breached, and identity information and other records belonging to external healthcare providers were stolen. Police estimated that approximately 4 GB of data was stolen, with some practitioners’ license and vaccination documents also affected. Authorities said they had secured the system and begun investigating with police, and that no impact on patient information or clinical services had been confirmed.
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