Health privacy watchdog investigates data breach that led to alleged assault on nurse

Regulator under scrutiny after employee allegedly used credentials to track down nurse's home address and phone number

Australia's health practitioner regulator has notified the health privacy watchdog of allegations an employee of the agency assaulted a nurse after he used his credentials to track down her home address and home number.

On Tuesday Guardian Australia revealed the incident, along with several others, which raise serious concerns medical practitioners could be at risk of further assaults, fraud and unauthorised access to their personal data.