by The province says it’s found more people whose personal information was stolen in the global breach of the file-transfer system MOVEit.
Among those affected are about 480 people in the Prescription Monitoring Program– an increase from 60 announced on Friday.
The updated list also includes over a hundred patients who visited the early labour and assessment unit at the IWK Hospital in Halifax, and 13,000 people in the Education system, including teachers, administrators and human resources and finance staff.
Cybersecurity Minister Colton LeBlanc says the government is now trying to contact everyone affected.
The province says updates on the breach will continue to be provided online at novascotia.ca/privacy-breach.