Police arrest man on suspicion of stealing personal data of 56,000 patients

Hong Kong police have arrested a man working for a contractor commissioned by the Hospital Authority on suspicion of stealing the personal data of more than 50,000 patients, the South China Morning Post has learned. The arrest came just days after the privacy watchdog and police said they were investigating a large-scale data leak involving more than 56,000 patients served by the authority, which reported the unauthorised retrieval of various information. The SCMP has learned the man made an...

By Danny Mok