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Medical details of over 120 million Indian patients have been leaked and made freely available on the Internet, according to a recent report published by Green bone Sustainable Resilience, a German cybersecurity firm.
PACS servers
Greenbone’s original report says the leak was facilitated by the fact that the Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) servers, where these details are stored, are not secure and linked to the public Internet without any protection, making them easily accessible to malicious elements.
