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Sead Fadilpašić

Millions of patient scans and health records leaked online

Doctor working on laptop.

Personally identifiable information (PII), as well as plenty of medical records belonging to millions of patients across the world have been found exposed on the internet and available to anyone who knows where to look.

These are the findings of Aplite, which claimed to have found more than 3,800 accessible PACS servers. For the uninitiated, PACS is short for Picture Archiving and Communications Server, an used for storing, retrieving, and accessing medical images. 

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