Medical files of 4,000 Vancouver patients stolen, raising alarms

Thieves who burgled a West Broadway office last month stole the personal medical files of 4,000 Vancouver patients, likely by far the largest privacy breach of medical records in B.C. in 10 years or longer. And the ease with which the thieves were able to walk off with the sensitive files points up how vulnerable British Columbians’ private medical histories have become with the increasing digitization of records.