Central Huron Health Data Breach (2014)

A university student who was on an educational placement with the family health team in Central Huron has been ordered to pay a $20,000 fine and a $5,000 victim surcharge for accessing personal health information without authorization. The student pled guilty to willfully accessing the personal health information of five individuals. As part of her plea, she agreed that she accessed the personal health information of 139 individuals without authorization between September 9, 2014 and March 5, 2015. In March 2015, the information and privacy commissioner was advised that the individual was found to have been illegally accessing the records of family, friends, local politicians, staff of the clinic and other individuals in the community.