A cyber-attack has hit a home care service provider to Ontario’s Local Health Integration Networks, including the Northeast LHIN.

Officials say CarePartner’s computer system was breached with patient and employee information inappropriately accessed, including personal health and financial information.

The Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner and law enforcement officials have been contacted.

On top of that, the LHINs and CarePartners voluntarily suspended the online referral system’s capacity to receive patient assignments until the breach is fully contained and vulnerabilities fully closed.

Officials say patient care has not been compromised.

In a release, CarePartners says they will be providing ongoing credit monitoring for any individual whose personal data may have been breached.

Information regarding credit monitoring and answers to other questions can been found online at: Ontario LHINs or www.carepartners.ca, or by calling 1-844-337-7300.

Filed under: CarePartners, cyber-attack, Northeast LHIN