Personal information belonging to thousands of British Columbia health care workers was potentially swept up in a data breach spanning three websites, CTV News reports. The breached website servers belonged to the Health Employers Association of British Columbia and carried 240,000 workers' email addresses that were linked to passport information, driver's licenses, birthdates and social insurance numbers.
Breach affects thousands of British Columbia health care workers
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