Authorities in Hong Kong have arrested an employee of a contractor suspected of stealing vast quantities of personal medical data from the Hospital Authority. The leak involves records belonging to over 56,000 patients and 1,000 staff members.

Hong Kong police have arrested an employee of a systems maintenance contractor on suspicion of stealing the personal data of more than 56,000 Hospital Authority patients and 1,000 staff members. The arrest of a 30-year-old local man came just days after the authority reported on Saturday a suspected data leak involving patients in the Kowloon East group of hospitals on a third‑party platform, with police and the privacy watchdog investigating. Police revealed on Wednesday that more than 1,000...