Exclusive: Confidential documents, including passports and medical credentials, made available, meaning ‘there is a risk of identity theft or fraud’
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The New South Wales government has accidentally leaked confidential documents belonging to almost 600 medical staff, including 67 senior doctors in Sydney, who had applied for jobs with the health department.
Doctors are enraged that their sensitive data was handled “recklessly” and fear they could now be at risk of identity theft. Medical qualifications could be misused by bad-faith actors to impersonate doctors or buy drugs, they said.
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