Australia’s biggest medical imaging provider I-MED data breach exposes tens of thousands of patient files


Tens of thousands of patients from Australia’s biggest medical imaging provider I-MED have had swaths of sensitive health and personal information exposed in a data breach using details that have been public for a year.

This information includes medical reports, scan images, names, addresses and other details that were stored in I-MED’s internal systems, which were accessed by a third party. On Thursday, the company provided a statement confirming the breach.

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Source: Crikey News


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