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Hong Kong Hospital Authority apologises for data breach involving 56,000 patients

Saturday, April 4, 2026DataBreaches.netHong Kong Hospital

Edith Lin reports: Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog and police are investigating a large-scale data leak involving over 56,000 patients served by the Hospital Authority, which reported the unauthorised retrieval of a variety of information. The authority on Saturday apologised to affected victims – patients of hospitals in Kowloon East – for the breach that compromised... Source

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