Overview

• Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced a provincial investigation into a mid-March breach that exposed personal records of 200,000 home care patients.
• Liberal health critic Adil Shamji revealed the incident on June 27, highlighting that the breach remained undisclosed for over three months.
• Information and Privacy Commissioner Patricia Kosseim confirmed her office received a breach report matching Shamji’s timeline and is conducting an inquiry.
• Ontario Health atHome is examining a third-party vendor’s role to determine whether patient data was accessed or extracted.
• Premier Doug Ford pledged to identify where the notification process failed and to strengthen safeguards against future lapses.