{"id":1894,"date":"2017-09-06T10:31:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T09:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dataleaklawyers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2017-09-06T10:31:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T09:31:37","slug":"tewksbury-hospital-admits-data-breach-former-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dataleaklawyers.co.uk\/blog\/tewksbury-hospital-admits-data-breach-former-employee","title":{"rendered":"Tewksbury Hospital admits data breach by former employee"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former employee stands accused of inappropriately accessing over a thousand patient records without authorisation.<\/p>\n

It’s believed more than 1,100 patients may have had their medical records viewed without reason for a 14-year period.<\/p>\n

Authorities were alerted to the data breach when a former patient raised concerns that their medical records may have been accessed inappropriately online. An internal review found that a hospital employee had indeed accessed the records “without a good reason” to do so. From there, it was found that the same employee had accessed a huge number of former and current patient medical records without authorisation or grounds to do so.
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Department of Health Investigation<\/h2>\n

The relevant Department of Health have been conducting an investigation over the multiple data breaches spanning from 2003 to May 2017. The unnamed employee obtained access to a range of personal and sensitive information, including:<\/p>\n

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