Simeon Thomas-Wilson reports:
Medical records of more than 7000 people were exposed online for 13 years, forcing an urgent review by SA Health into whether there were any other breaches.
Names, date of birth and test results for around 7200 pathology tests at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital from 1996 to 2005 were leaked online as part of an academic presentation on childhood infections posted to the hospital website in 2005.
Executive director of corporate services Phil Robinson said the data was present upon a click of a graph.
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As the Central Telegraph explains it in their coverage:
The information was contained within an academic presentation on childhood infections posted to the hospital website in 2005. It was removed from the hospital site in 2016, but had also been uploaded to two external document sharing sites.
“It contained embedded data with the names, date of birth and test results for around 7,200 pathology tests taken between 1996 and 2005,” executive director of corporate services Phil Robinson said.
“Because the author did not remove the source data in the presentation it was able to be accessed online.