A U. of Washington Medicine descobriu informações sobre 974k pessoas depois que um paciente encontrou seus dados no Google: Medical data about nearly 1 million patients of the University of Washington Medicine was exposed online for at least three weeks in December, the school said in a statement this week. Data about approximately 974,000 individuals was included, the school announced Wednesday. UW Medicine is sending letters to the affected patients and has notified the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A misconfigured database made visible patient names, medical record numbers, with whom the school shared patients’ medical information, and a description of what was shared, such as office vs. lab visits or patient demographic information. In some cases, exposed files included the name or a lab test that was performed, though not the result, or the name of a research study including the name of a health condition. The information in question became accessible on Dec. 4, 2018 “due to an internal …
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