Fomer staff follow for the case of class-carriage in opposition to inner well being at the identification of robbery

Two former employees have filed an application for a class action case against internal health in the BC Supreme Court.

The lawsuit was filed on 22 May, alleging that the employer was careless and tried to hide the entire limit of data violation, resulting in personal information of thousands of employees and then sold on the dark web.

As a result, it says, the affected people did not have the opportunity to completely protect themselves – and they are still living with the results.

“The effects of this data breech have been life-changing,” said advocate Justin Giyvanatti, who represents two former employees. “The identity is stolen, used to cheat.”

The trial has not been certified yet, and no allegations have been proved in the court.

CBC News contacted internal health for a response earlier this week and reported that it was not known about the trial. There is no response in the court.

Thousands were impressed

Violations in or around December 2009, the case states, which affects employees working for internal health between 2003 and 2009.

But it says, even by May 2025, whatever happened has not been shared to the entire extent.

One of the suits of the suit, Rai Fergas, says that he knew about the violation after being informed by only a former colleague.

Other, Susan Shaw, says that he learned about it in a news article on 15 April 2025 after reading it. She says that she then approached the interior health and was told that she was affected.

April 15 is the day CBC The Fifth Estate Investigation It was discovered that more than 28,000 people working for internal health were affected by the breech, with personal information, social insurance numbers, date of birth and home addresses were being posted online, for sale on the dark web.

Identified by victims The Fifth Estate He was a victim of fraud, listed as the only director of two federal registered shell companies from bogus tax returns filed in his name.

In the case, the plaintiff says that there are car loans and credit card applications made in his name, and describe the stress of trying to clean it.

The suit also alleged that the entire, internal health failed to disclose the entire range of violations, including its severity, both publicly and affected employees, called “fraud hiding”.

Internal Health offering Credit Monitoring

Violation media reports, internal health in April Gave a public statement Underlining the steps taken to reach the affected employees.

It said that after obtaining information from RCMP, it was found about the possible violation in January 2025 that personal information of an employee was stolen.

In March, it excluded a news release, any of which worked for them between 2003 and 2009, to determine whether they were impressed on the basis of documents provided by RCMP to contact the toll-free number to determine.

The statement said that when internal health was working to contact all current employees directly, it was unable to do so for the former employees because their contact was no longer known.

It also said that it was offering two years of credit monitoring to anyone affected.

Certification is required to proceed the lawsuit

Giovanetti says that part of the hope of the case is to expand the credit monitoring due to the possibility of leaked information affecting individuals for the coming years.

If the case is certified, the people affected by the breech will have the opportunity to get out, but otherwise the case will be represented in the case.

He encouraged the worker working for the Health Authority between 2003 and 2009 whether he was impressed by Breach and if he had to take steps to protect themselves, to check it.

“These are 28,000 persons who can be affected for the last 15 years,” he said. “People have a financial toll, but also a mental toll.”