No 100% secure system: 4.000 clinical records related with abortions were distributed by eMule in Spain
As reported in the spaniard newspaper El País, “Downloading music or movies from the job’s computer through a P2P software can have terrible and unexpected effects, produced by someone that could only want to get in its MP3 a song from David Bisbal [popular singer in Spain]. This kind of error has produced that 11.300 clinical records, 4.000 related with abortions, were exposed to any internet user. The computer illiteracy of a gynecological clinic’ worker could be the reason to allow the access to these files by eMule (the most popular peer to peer software), and so on giving access to the data stored in a folder of the hard disk to millions of people. It is not known who was guilty, or the reasons of the breach, but the Spaniard Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has sanctioned the Lasaitasuna clinical center in Bilbao with 150.000 euros.”
What could be the consequences of this kind of breach in a totally anonymous clinical records database?
2008-04-26 at 12.09 pm
4.000 historias clínicas relacionadas con abortos fueron distribuidas a través del eMule por error…
Un error ha podido provocar que 11.300 historias clínicas, de ellas 4.000 de casos de aborto, acaben expuestos ante cualquier internauta. El desconocimiento tecnológico de algún empleado de una clínica ginecológica pudo llevarle a poner a disposic…