Capital District Health Authority, Nova Scotia's largest health board, has informed 105 patients that their personal information may have been exposed when a former employee viewed confidential records out of curiosity. The breach was discovered during an audit of the employee, after she was found guilty of accessing 15 sensitive files inappropriately

Katharine Lawrence, the former employee, admitted to viewing several records of friends and family, but does not acknowledge that she illegally accessed an additional 105 records. If she did view these additional files, they were related to work, she said, according to a report by CBC news.

The incidents occurred between 2005 and the fall of 2011.

"We are extremely disappointed that these breaches occurred," Capital Health said in a statement. "As an organization, we value integrity and accountability and we remain confident in the ethical practices of employees throughout our organization."

This type of situation should influence companies to implement a data classification program, which would prevent insider breaches. This is because data classification solutions limit the number of individuals able to access sensitive information and monitors the activities of employees that do view it.