3.4 million people affected by Ontario pregnancy and newborn care registry data breach

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An Ontario government agency that manages data about pregnancy and newborn children in the province says the personal health information of about 3.4 million people was impacted by a data breach.

“As a result of the incident, unauthorized parties were able to copy certain files from one of BORN's servers. Data in the copied files included personal health information collected from primarily Ontario fertility, pregnancy, and child health care providers,” the registry wrote in aAnyone who gave birth between April 2010 and May 2023 is “likely” affected by the breach, BORN said.

BORN said that it does not collect banking details, social insurance numbers, OHIP version codes or security numbers, or patient emails addresses or passwords. As such, BORN said, those details were not included in the incident.

 

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