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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