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Hackers stole Covid test data of 1.4 million people from Paris hospital system

Posted on September 16, 2021 by Dissent

Sarah Elzas reports:

Hackers stole the personal data of around 1.4 million people who took Covid-19 tests in the Paris region in the middle of 2020. The hack of a service of the Paris public hospital system, AP-HP, is the latest in a growing number of cyberattacks on French health institutions and Covid data breaches.

“All the people concerned, to whom AP-HP apologises, will be individually informed in the coming days,” said the Paris public hospital system in a statement.

Read more on RFI.

h/t, @Gate_15_Analyst


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