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Data breach that may have exposed 200,000 Ontario home care patients information ‘appalling’, MPP says

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Liberal health critic Adil Shamji is accusing the Ford government of a “dereliction of duty” after an alleged data breach exposed personal information of 200,000 Ontario home-care patients. “It is appalling that the Ministry of Health and Ontario Health atHome would allow the data of nearly one third of all home care patients to be compromised without informing them or taking action for nearly three and a half months,” he said in an interview with Metroland Media.

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