Stolen identities of 28,000 B.C. health-care workers used in decade-long crime sprees – CBC

Calls for inquiry after government agency denied data breach

Oct 10, 2025

Kelowna nurse Ashley Stone sits down at her kitchen table, opens a bulky blue folder containing a paper trail of 10 years of multiple frauds committed in her name by imposters and gets right to the point.

“It’s just been a nightmare.”

She says she’s had to repeatedly put out “fires” and convince debt collectors she was innocent.

“It’s never over,” she said. “I could be 80 years old and still be dealing with this.”

Stone says her employer, Interior Health, which runs hospitals and medical facilities in B.C.’s southeastern region, needs to be held accountable for a decade of denials of a massive data breach in 2009.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/interior-health-data-breach-investigation-9.6931436