CarePartners became victim of a cyber attack where Hackers release their employees’ wage statements and other financial files, also some of the data was being dumped publicly. It was presumably as a way to increase pressure on CarePartners to pay the “requested” fee for the hackers not to release any more data. The compromised data includes the employee’s name, address, social insurance number, and wage and deductions information. The hackers claim that they have three other dumps with employee and corporate files that they will release at some point. Perhaps those files contain more current financial and employee data.

The detailed medical histories and contact information of 10,000 of home-care patients in Ontario are being held for ransom by thieves. They raided the computer systems of a health-care provider. Personal health and financial information of patients had been inappropriately accessed. Information compromised included phone numbers and addresses, dates of birth, and health card numbers, detailed medical histories including past conditions, diagnoses, surgical procedures, care plans and medications for patients across the province. It also contained more than 140 active patient credit card numbers and expiry dates, many with security codes.

The attack breached CarePartners computer system. As a result patient and employee information held in that system, including personal health and financial information, has been inappropriately accessed. It is unknown how much information was breached.