India just had the Biggest Medical Records Breach Ever
In a data breach unprecedented in its scale in India, a large multi-speciality private hospital in Kerala had its complete patient records from the last five years—involving hundreds of thousands of test results, scans, prescriptions, etc—leaked on the internet, all of it searchable by a unique patient ID.
This breach potentially involved several gigabytes of patient data—if not terabytes—documented in many hundreds of thousands of separate files. Most of these medical records included patient names, email addresses and/or phone numbers.
It remains unclear how many weeks or months (or years) these records remained in the public domain.
Source: Data, Privacy, Pandemic: India just had the Biggest Medical Records Breach Ever | ORF
