{"id":452461,"date":"2026-02-04T03:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452461\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T03:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:14:16","slug":"infectious-disease-data-safe-from-cyberattack-ontario-public-health-unit-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452461\/","title":{"rendered":"Infectious disease data safe from cyberattack, Ontario public health unit says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Lakelands Public Health says systems that house infectious disease and other sensitive data are safe after a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/cyberattack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cyberattack<\/a> late last month.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Ontario public health unit said Tuesday it is working with a leading cybersecurity firm to restore its systems. The health unit serves Peterborough city and county, Northumberland and Haliburton counties, Kawartha Lakes and the First Nations of Curve Lake and Alderville.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome programs and services may experience temporary disruptions as restoration work continues. Where impacts occur, affected individuals and partners will be contacted directly,\u201d it said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation remains ongoing, and Lakelands Public Health is doing everything we can to protect personal information and restore public health services. In the event the investigation determines that any personal or personal health information has been impacted, any affected parties will be contacted accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11650493\/savannah-guthrie-mother-nancy-abducted-home-today-host\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770174856_660_savannah-guthrie-nancy-guthrie-missing.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Today\u2019 host Savannah Guthrie\u2019s mother abducted from home, police believe\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11649009\/clearview-ontario-defence-military-radar-site\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770174856_345_00a8749cda4dc4051a2ab6f1e1b3436f8593d2304870b2d9b27176e60cb8aae7.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tOntario town worried over planned military radar site: \u2018Very frustrating situation\u2019\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Thomas Piggott, medical officer of health and CEO of Lakelands Public Health, said in the release the agency wanted to take a \u201cproactive approach\u201d in its cyberattack response.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur priority response to this event is protecting the information entrusted to us and maintaining continuity of critical public health services,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Lakelands Public Health says systems that house infectious disease and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,23994,186032,84,186033],"class_list":["post-452461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cyberattack","tag-dr-thomas-piggott","tag-health","tag-lakelands-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}