Vancouver Coastal Health Data Breach (2012)

A female Vancouver Coastal Health employee has been fired after accessing the confidential electronic records of five local media personalities – including three from CTV News. Anchors Tamara Taggart and Coleen Christie and health expert Dr. Rhonda Low were among the victims contacted Thursday and informed that a nursing aide had improperly viewed their patient records. The health authority said the breach was discovered several days ago during a regular monthly audit, and that there’s no evidence the information was passed on to anyone else. “All indications are that this person did it out of quote-unquote ‘curiosity,’ so there’s no reason to believe it was anything other than that,” spokesman Clay Adams said.