Thousands of medical records were exposed by the attackers in one of the hospitals in New York. The leak was caused by a misconfigured backup server by the company which was responsible for using records management technology. It is unclear since how long the records were exposed. The records related to patient's mental health, mental diagnoses, HIV statuses, sexual assaults and domestic violence were exposed. Other information including names, home addresses, addiction histories and religious affiliations were exposed. The leak was discovered in early May during a routine sweep of internet using Shodan which is a search engine for networked devices.
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