Hospital Authority responds to Office of Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data investigation report

The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority: The spokesperson for the Hospital Authority (HA) said today (October 30) that the HA notes the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) has completed the investigation, and published the report today, regarding a suspected incident of patient data theft and the unlawful uploading of the data onto a third-party platform in the Kowloon East Cluster (KEC) in April this year. The HA accepts the investigation findings and recommendations, and will take appropriate action to seriously follow up on them. The HA will continue to strengthen its security of information system to ensure that hospital operations, patient services and personal data security are stringently protected. In April this year, the HA's routine surveillance system detected a suspected incident of patient data theft in the KEC. The incident was an isolated event involving the management of data access control of a contractor during maintenance works in a peripheral clinical system, resulting in the theft of some patient data. The HA attaches great importance to the incident and had proactively reported it to Police and the PCPD in a timely m

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