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Patient data available on Google, Yahoo due to security mishap
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:52:48 -0600 (CST)
http://www.scmagazine.com/patient-data-available-on-google-yahoo-due-to-security-mishap/article/229173/ Patient data available on Google, Yahoo due to security mishap Dan Kaplan February 23, 2012 The health records of more than 30,000 patients at five California hospitals may have been publicly accessible via search engines due to improper server configurations. How many patients? 31,800 people being treated from February to August 2011 at St. Jute Medical Center, Mission Hospital, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital and Petaluma Valley Hospital. What type of personal information? Names, blood pressures, lab results, medication allergies and demographic data, as well as other medical details, such as body-mass index, and smoking and advance directive status. What happened? Incorrect security settings enabled the information to be available on search engines Google and Yahoo. However, to come across the information, one would have had to conduct a detailed search using a string of terms. The data was available from early 2011 through February. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Small, inexpensive USB drives pose huge threats to organizations left unprotected. Download Chapter 1 of CREDANT Technologies eBook Data Protection to the Rescue http://www.credant.com/campaigns/external_media_ebook/chapter1/lp/
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