Data breach may have impacted health information of 200K Ontarians – CTV
June 27, 2025
Ontario Health Minister Silvia Jones says that an investigation is underway into a reported data breach at a third-party vendor amid claims that the personal health information of approximately 200,000 Ontarians may have been accessed.
Liberal MPP Adil Shamji issued a news release on Friday in which he claimed that a breach involving the data of Ontario Health atHome patients occurred on March 17 but has not been disclosed to the public.
In his release. Shamji called on the information and privacy commissioner to investigate the breach and demanded that Premier Doug Ford provide an explanation for “three-and-a-half months of inaction.”
Asked about the matter during an unrelated news conference on Friday, Jones confirmed that an investigation is ongoing.
Jones, however, did not directly respond to a question on whether private medical records were in fact accessed.
“Ontario Health is absolutely investigating right now. We have a division that focuses on any potential cyberbreach and it is standard operating (procedure) that we will notify (the public) if there has been any form of breach to individual patients but that investigation is going on right now,”
