Private Medical Data of Over 1.5 Million People Exposed Through Amazon

Gizmodo reports that a wide variety of information about 1.5 million people -- everything from police injury reports, doctor's notes about their patients, and social security numbers -- "all were inexplicably unveiled on a public subdomain of Amazon Web Services. Welcome to the next big data breach horrorshow. Instead of hackers, it's old-fashioned neglect that exposed your most sensitive information." From the article: Tomorrow, [Texas-based researcher Chris Vickers, who discovered the breach] will turn over the data to the the Texas Attorney General, where it will be destroyed. But that doesn’t mean Systema is in the clear. Vickers may not be the only person who downloaded those millions of records as they sat out in the Amazon cloud. We don’t know how long the information was available for everyone to see. But no matter what the timeframe, the neglect could be a HIPAA violation: Systema failed to protect the security of patients’ electronic medical information.

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Re:Not really related to Amazon.

[Etherwalk]

Should probably be pointed out that this has nothing to do with amazon other than it was their web hosting used.

Amazon is a big name. Amazon is related to the story because it makes more people read the story. It's like if you have a story that Donald Trump's barber is secretly Sweeney Todd. The story becomes Donald Trump.

Re:Amazon?

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Bear in mind that Slashdot generates revenue from clicks.

Jail, bankruptcy?

[whoever57]

So someone is going to jail for this and the company will soon be bankrupt, right?

Oh wait, none of this will happen, because the government is controlled by corporations. Just like the GM story where the cover-up led to people dying. No one will ever serve any time for killing people in this manner.