The personal information of more than 50,000 current and former Nova Scotia health care workers may have been accessed in a breach, CBC News reports. Operators of the Nova Scotia Health Employees' Pension Plan said the data was accessible on a third-party email server between November 2020 and January 2021. The third-party email vendor, Accellion, found no evidence any information had been accessed or copied after it investigated the breach.
11 March 2021
Personal info of 50K Nova Scotia health care workers exposed in breach
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