Sensitive data of Dr Lal Pathlabs patients left open on public server, says report
4 years, 2 months ago

Sensitive data of Dr Lal Pathlabs patients left open on public server, says report

India Today  

In a major security lapse, Dr Lal Pathlabs, India’s largest lab testing company, exposed the data of millions of patients on a public server. As per TechCrunch, the company was storing hundreds of spreadsheets containing sensitive data of patients in public storage bucket hosted on Amazon Web Services. Reacting to the whole security breach, Toivenon told TC, “Once I discovered this I was blown away that another publicly-listed organization had failed to secure their data, but I do believe that security is a team sport and everyone’s responsibility. Dr LalPathlabs is yet to issue an official statement regarding the major security lapse but a spokesperson of the company had told the publication that it is “investigating” the matter.

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News 18  

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