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Millions affected in major health data breach caused by a missing password

Data leak.

Researchers from Cybernews have reported finding a huge database containing sensitive customer information from the Mexican healthcare sector left unprotected online

The team discovered a misconfigured Kibana instance with a “tremendous volume” of information, later attributed to eCaresoft, a software company behind two cloud-based Hospital Information Systems - Cirrus and Anytime. These platforms are used by more than 65 hospitals, 110 outpatient care centers, and more than 30,000 doctors, to help manage different aspects of work, such as inventory management, medicine management, appointment booking, and more.

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