IE Health Service Executive 2015 Technical Error (Q10294)
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A data breach risk event
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IE Health Service Executive 2015 Technical Error
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A data breach risk event
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January 2015
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The Health Service Executive has apologised for a data protection breach which allowed parents registering their children for the under-6s free GP care scheme to see an application from another person. The breach was reported as required to the Data Protection Commissioner after a very small number of people had sight of data relating to one other individuals application, according to the HSE. The incident happened just before a technical issue in the online registration forced the system to shut down for a number of hours on Monday night, it said. Earlier, parents experienced difficulties accessing the dedicated website after one of the four servers crashed. More than 20,000 children have been registered for the scheme so far, out of 270,000 who are eligible, according to the HSE. The te (English)
