Alberta Health says privacy breach possible on province's vaccine passport website
Province says at least 12 people downloaded the wrong vaccine record
The province's vaccine record website experienced a possible privacy breach, Alberta Healthsaid in a statement Thursday.
Alberta Health says ithas received reports of at least 12 users who downloaded the wrong information from the province's COVID-19 vaccination record website on Wednesday.The record those users downloaded contained the name, date of birth and vaccine information. The government says no other information was leaked.
As of 7 p.m. Thursdaythe site was still offline. Alberta Health saysan investigation is underway to determine the causeand the number of Albertans affected.
The issuedoes not appear to be caused by a security breach to the system, the province says,and the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner has been notified.
Alberta Health Minister Jason Copping said he wants to apologize toAlbertans who may have experienced issues accessing the updated vaccine record for travel.
"The government had months to plan and they continue to fail Alberta families," the NDP MLA for Edmonton-Glenora, Sarah Hoffman, said during question period in Edmonton on Thursday, calling on Premier Jason Kenney to apologize for the "chaos" around vaccine passports.