In Drenthe, too, many women who participated in the population screening cervical cancer were victims of the hack at the Clinical Diagnostics laboratory. Similarly Andrea Westerveld from Assen. She has already fallen victim to the allowance affair and fears unjustified fraud vacations due to the data breach.
The letter at Westerveld fell on the mat on Wednesday. Just like 400,000 other women, she read that her data is involved in the data breach. Immediately her the fear she knows so well from the period that she became deep in debt because of the surcharge scandal. In addition, thousands of parents were wrongly accused of fraud with allowances. “I gave that a place, but this is another blow. It gives another unsafe feeling and makes everything coming up again, including things that don’t have anything to do with it.”
The captured data through the hack is about name, address and place of residence, date of birth, social security number, results of tests and names of care providers. A limited number of women also involves e-mail addresses or telephone numbers. Women who were victims have been called to stay alert to possible fraud.
Westerveld finds that possibility difficult to digest. “My fear is that I am blamed for fraud again, while I just did what belongs. And these are criminals who have our data.” The uncertainty in particular finds it difficult to tolerate. “I wonder: what awaits us all? No solution is offered with which steps we should take. I find it unimaginable that this can be so easy.”
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