WINNIPEG The Manitoba Ombudsman has released a report about a privacy breach involving the health information of nearly 9,000 children. On Aug. 26, 2020, Children s Disability Services accidentally sent health information of 8,900 kids to around 100 services agencies and community advocates in an email. The documents included the children s names, gender, date of birth, address, their disability and medical assessments. The Ombudsman launched an investigation to review the breach. The investigation found the breach was unintentional and was due to human error. The agencies that received the information deleted it right away. The Ombudsman added the department took the right measures to respond to the breach but it didn t completely implement privacy policies and procedures.
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The Manitoba Ombudsman has made nine recommendations to the provincial government following a data breach last summer that sent affected 8,900 children receiving services from the Children’s disAbility Services program of Manitoba Families.
“This privacy breach was unprecedented in scope for this province,” said Ombudsman Jill Perron, in a press release. “When those affected are vulnerable children and youth, the impact of a privacy breach of sensitive personal health information for those children and their families can be devastating.”
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