THE Philippines-based company at the centre of the Irish hospital records security breach changed ownership twice during the period under police investigation, without informing its clients.

POLICE in the Philippines have seized the entire office of a company linked to the Irish patient records scandal and have been given a month to search for evidence that private information was used for fraud.

AN investigation into how sensitive medical records were illegally accessed in the Philippines has spread to 60 more Irish hospitals and individual doctors — potentially compromising the private data of thousands of patients.

TWO more hospitals have confirmed they gave the online transcription firm at the heart of the Tallaght Hospital data protection controversy sensitive information relating to thousands of patients over half a decade.

A SECOND major facility has become embroiled in the Tallaght Hospital patient records crisis, after admitting it has used the same private transcription firm at the centre of the controversy since 2005.