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From the Daily Mail: Psychological profiles and therapy sessions for thousands of patients, including ‘telehealth’ audio and video and even driver’s licenses, has leaked to the open web.
Over 1.7 million activity logs, comprised of an estimated 5.3 terabytes of mental health data, were left exposed online by the healthcare start-up Confidant Health.
The Austin-based firm — which promised to build ‘the next-generation of virtual care’ for those seeking addiction treatment and other behavioral therapies — had left its patients’ confidential information exposed via a ‘non-password-protected database.’
The severe privacy lapse comes amid a summer of catastrophic leaks, including July’s Independence Day ‘RockYou2024,’ which exposed an astonishing 10 billion passwords to cyber criminals, and a massive breach of US social security numbers.
Video and audio of therapy sessions, transcripts, and other patient records were accidentally exposed in a publicly accessible database operated by the virtual medical company Confidant Health. https://t.co/9eGYvjDwzy
— WIRED (@WIRED) September 6, 2024
Here’s a more detailed article about the @ConfidantHealth data breach. If they’re lucky no one other than the white hat cyber researcher Jeremiah Fowler @yoda69 found it. Here’s his article about ithttps://t.co/xAxGz9x8Ne
— Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) September 6, 2024
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