Documents reveal personal health data on Victoria's donor registry has been at extreme risk of being lost, hacked, or changed for more than a year due to poor data security.
Documents leaked to the ABC show Victoria's registry of egg and sperm donor s, and those born via donor, is at "extreme" risk of being compromised.
Her mum took control, and asked them both to come into the bedroom; their respective partners had come too but they were to stay in the living room.Steph, her brother and mum sat on the edge of their parents' bed as their dad brought in a chair from the living room, sat facing them, and started crying."We wanted kids so bad," her mum had told her."The only way we could conceive you both was through a donor.
No-one really knew what to do, she said. It wasn't a situation anyone had ever imagined, let alone had experienced.Now leaked documents reveal the database she relied on for answers is at risk of being breached or corrupted.VARTA itself is due to be disbanded by the end of the yearPhoto shows Charlie sitting in front of Michelle looking down the barrel of the lens with a smile while Michelle looks down at him.
The report also revealed the number of people in Victoria undergoing treatment using donor sperm or eggs was growing at a rate of about 8 per cent each year.Photo shows A close up image of a baby sleeping, his eyes are closed and he is lying on one arm. The 2023 KPMG report shows VARTA was last year undergoing an update of its storage systems, but was experiencing delays.
There were other medical complications she had been through including being diagnosed with a benign brain tumour and being hospitalised for what doctors had thought was a stroke but was put down to intense migraines. "The height is strange, my Mum said she swore he was shorter because she said we wanted a donor that was similar in height to dad," she said.
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