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September 20, 2015 04:00 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gz02QDuOcEY/private-medical-data-of-over-15-million-people-exposed-through-amazon
Private Medical Data of Over 1.5 Million People Exposed Through Amazon
Gizmodo reports that a wide variety of information about 1.5 million people -- everything from police injury reports, doctor's notes about their patients, and social security numbers -- "all were inexplicably unveiled on a public subdomain of Amazon Web Services. Welcome to the next big data breach horrorshow. Instead of hackers, it's old-fashioned neglect that exposed your most sensitive information."From the article: Tomorrow, [Texas-based researcher Chris Vickers, who discovered the breach] will turn over the data to the the Texas Attorney General, where it will be destroyed. But that doesn’t mean Systema is in the clear. Vickers may not be the only person who downloaded those millions of records as they sat out in the Amazon cloud.We don’t know how long the information was available for everyone to see. But no matter what the timeframe, the neglect could be a HIPAA violation: Systema failed to protect the security of patients’ electronic medical information.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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