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Incident: Thousands of Australian medical histories exposed in data breach | SMH

Incident: Thousands of Australian medical histories exposed in data breach | SMH

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: August 07 2019

Thousands of Australian medical histories exposed in data breach

UpGuard uncovered Neoclinical’s unsecured database on the internet

Reported in: SMH

Tens of thousands of Australians have had their medical histories and other private information exposed in a large data breach of a company that enabled them to participate in paid clinical trials.

The database belonging to Neoclinical exposed approximately 37,000 people’s contact information and their responses to personal medical questions qualifying them for clinical trials, which included information about diagnoses, illicit drug use and treatments.

Source: Thousands of medical histories exposed in data breach

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