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Leakage of medical data: nearly 500,000 victims in France

2021-02-23T20:43:22.417Z


The data would come from around thirty medical biology laboratories, located mainly in the north-western quarter of France.


A file containing sensitive medical data for a list of nearly 500,000 people in France is circulating on the internet, according to information from Liberation and the blog specializing in cybersecurity Zataz.

The file contains 491,840 names associated with contact details (postal address, telephone, email) and a social security number.

They are sometimes accompanied by indications on the blood group, the attending physician or the mutual, or comments on the state of health (including a possible pregnancy), drug treatments, or pathologies (in particular HIV).

According to the Checknews verification section of the daily Liberation which investigated the subject, the data would come from around thirty medical biology laboratories, located mainly in the north-western quarter of France, using the same data entry software. of medico-administrative information.

According to the newspaper, they correspond to samples taken between 2015 and October 2020.

A file at the heart of a commercial negotiation

"We can find this file in 7 different places on the Internet," said Damien Bancal, journalist specializing in cybersecurity, who first identified the leak on February 14 on his blog Zataz.

According to him, this file was the subject of a commercial negotiation between several hackers on a Telegram group specializing in the exchange of stolen databases, and one of them distributed it for free following an argument.

“500,000 pieces of data are already enormous and there is nothing to prevent hackers from having a lot more,” he explains.

Asked Tuesday evening by AFP, the National Information Systems Agency (Anssi) did not respond.

The CNIL, personal data policeman, and the Directorate General for Health were not able to comment on this information either.

Source: leparis

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