Saskatchewan's information and privacy commissioner is calling last year's ransomware cyberattack on eHealth one of the province's largest privacy breaches ever. Opening the document triggered a Ryuk ransomware attack between Dec. 20, 2019, and Jan. 5, 2020, a news release from privacy commissioner Ron Kruzeniski's office published on Friday said. Kruzeniski found the attack affected some 50 million files and about 5.5 million of those files may have contained personal information and/or personal health information. "A minimum 547,145 files containing personal information and/or personal health information of citizens of Saskatchewan were either exposed to the malware or maliciously stolen from eHealth, SHA and [the ministry of] health," the release said. Kurzeniski concluded the information in the files was either exposed by the malware or outright stolen in one of Saskatchewan's most significant privacy breaches ever.

Source: CBC News January 08, 2021 16:29 UTC