Employee information incident
Update on employee information incident
You may have seen recent media reports about an incident involving Interior Health employee information.
In March 2024, we asked individuals who worked at Interior Health between 2003 and 2009 to call a toll-free number to find out if their personal information was included in a document recovered during an RCMP investigation.
If you were employed by Interior Health between 2003 and 2009 and are seeking information on the privacy incident, please call 1-833-489-1705 to determine if you were impacted. There are steps you can take to protect your personal information.
Background
In January 2024, the Vernon North Okanagan RCMP informed IH about a document discovered during an investigation that contained personal information of individuals, including current and former employees of IH. The information seized by police included names, dates of birth, social insurance numbers, home addresses, phone numbers, and the individuals’ age in 2009. The document provided to IH has more than 20,000 names on it.
No patient information is contained in the document.
IH has confirmed there are approximately 7,000 current employees listed and are taking steps to notify them. Due to the age of the data and its broad scope, IH is not able to accurately confirm the former employee information nor where the information came from.
We do know that the information in the data provided by the RCMP is broad, not limited to IH information, and likely from 2009.
Through an external review, we have also confirmed that this information is not currently circulating on the dark web, and we will continue to monitor this.