The Princess of Wales’s hospital data breach has not been referred to police as an expert explains that a “decoy” plan could have been in use – meaning her actual medical files were not accessed by the perpetrators.
Despite Health Minister Maria Caulfield revealing back in March that the police had been asked to look into the data breach, the case has not yet been referred to Scotland Yard. It was previously alleged that employees at the hospital, where Kate stayed for 13 days back in January for abdominal surgery, attempted to access the Princess of Wales’s private medical records – which is a criminal offence.
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Source: Express News
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