Hong Kong police arrest suspect over 56,000 patient data leak

Hong Kong police have arrested a suspect over the unauthorised access and leak of personal data of more than 56,000 patients from the Hospital Authority.In a statement on 4 April, the HA said its monitoring systems detected the breach at around 2 a.m. on 3 April, involving patient records from the Kowloon East Cluster that were later found posted on a third-party platform.The leaked data included patients' names, gender, Hong Kong identity card numbers, hospital file numbers, and details of surg