A vast ‘honeypot’ of records tempts hackers, and cyber-defenses are weak, probe finds.
Provincial health officials haven’t done enough to protect British Columbians’ personal health information from abuse and hacking despite knowing about vulnerabilities for years, a new investigation from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner has found.
“And now all of this data resides in massive amounts in one place. It creates kind of a honeypot for the people who are wrongdoers and are bad actors who want to get access to it for identity theft or blackmail.” There were also no ongoing auditing practices to look for signs of suspicious activity until the investigation began, and the authority had no guiding data security strategy.
“It’s like gaining entry into a house, the door is obviously locked. But if you manage to get through the door and enter the house, everything is there for the taking, basically,” said McEvoy. McEvoy’s office issued seven recommendations to protect sensitive personal information, ranging from implementing software to monitor for suspicious activity, to developing an overarching data security strategy to encryption and annual penetration testing at minimum.
The authority has already updated outdated software in a 2022 review, he said, and is looking at its auditing system and capacity.
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