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Since filing a proposed class action lawsuit against Natural Health Services Ltd. and parent company Sunniva Inc., law firm Diamond and Diamond has received “dozens” of inquiries.

Darryl Singer, lead counsel on the lawsuit, said his office started to get calls from people concerned about a data breach of Natural Health Services patient information immediately after the lawsuit was announced last week.

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“Everybody’s concerns are fairly similar, and at the end of the day, everybody that’s called us is quite happy to be part of the class action,” Singer said.

Natural Health Services, which operates seven clinics in Canada for patients seeking medical cannabis, identified there was a data breach in their electronic medical record system between Dec. 4, 2018 and Jan. 7, 2019. During that time period, records containing personal health information of about 34,000 patients were accessed without authorization, Sunniva said last week. The breach did not involve any financial, credit card or social insurance number information.