They were victims of a massive data breach in 2009. Interior Health denied it for a decade. - DataBreaches.Net

"Kelowna nurse Ashley Stone sits down at her kitchen table, opens a bulky blue folder containing a paper trail of 10 years of multiple frauds committed in her name by imposters and gets right to the point. "It's just been a nightmare." She says she's had to repeatedly put out "fires" and convince debt collectors she was innocent. "It's never over," she said. "I could be 80 years old and still be dealing with this.""

"Stone says her employer, Interior Health, which runs hospitals and medical facilities in B.C.'s southeastern region, needs to be held accountable for a decade of denials of a massive data breach in 2009. "I thought they would take it seriously," she told fifth estate co-host Mark Kelley, recalling when, in 2014, she discovered multiple nurses in the maternity ward at Kelowna General Hospital had been victims of identity theft - at the same time."

A Kelowna nurse experienced a decade of identity theft after imposters used her information to commit multiple frauds, forcing repeated disputes with debt collectors. The nurse discovered in 2014 that multiple maternity ward nurses had simultaneous identity-theft incidents linked to a 2009 data breach. Interior Health has denied the breach for years despite victims' reports. The breach ultimately affected about 28,000 health-care workers. A former Ontario privacy commissioner called for an external investigation into why a provincial agency denied the breach for a decade. Victims report ongoing financial, administrative and emotional consequences and seek institutional accountability.

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