Though 255 different hospitals were affected, here is a selection of some of the major hospitals where workers’ information were exposed: Per the screenshots above, the data clearly identifies doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers at hospitals across the US.
This looks like marketing data that was mishandled to me.”ĭoctors and Nurses at Major Hospitals Affected A lot of the addresses don’t match up with the federal registry, either. “If this data had been scraped from a federal registry, I would expect most of the email addresses to have healthcare domains. “One thing that stood out to me was the large proportion of personal email addresses,” Phillips said. We found a few dozen test entries, but the majority of the database contained personal information.Įmail handles like and also hint that these are personal email addresses, instead of publicly available contacts. The database our security team recovered had 98,922 entries. The identifiers can also be entered to scan publicly available government databases that provide even more detailed information on individual medical professionals, such as mailing addresses, practice addresses, and other identifiers. It’s important to note that NPIs - 10-digit codes used to identify medical professionals and providers - are often used on Medicare or Medicaid forms.
National provider identifier (NPI) numbers. The leak exposed sensitive information, such as: A lot of the files had personal information, and we found all that same information in the database.” What information was compromised? “I took a screenshot of the Zarex directory. “It seems like the spreadsheets were being imported into the marketing database,” VPNOverview lead cybersecurity researcher Aaron Phillips noted. From our research, we found that the information is connected to the marketing of Zarex, a generic drug used to treat and prevent stomach ulcers. VPNOverview’s security team discovered a trove of sensitive personal data stored in a backup database and across thousands of other files. PlatformQ Leaks Zarex Medical Marketing Data Based on the findings, our security team believes the leak was marketing data for the generic drug Zarex. PlatformQ - self-described as a “leading provider of digital engagement solutions” for healthcare (PlatformQ Health) and education (PlatformQ Education) - inadvertently published a database backup stored in a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket. Use this map for educational purposes (fair use), please refer to the Nations Online Project.The security research team at VPNOverview has uncovered a data breach that could have compromised nearly 100,000 doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals working at major hospitals across the United States. Sinai is divided into the two Egyptian Governorates of the North Sinai Governorate, with its administrative center at Arish (El Arīsh), and the the South Sinai Governorate with El Tor (Tur Sinai) as capital.Ĭountries with international borders to Sinai are Palestinian territories (Gaza Strip) and Israel, Egypt shares maritime borders in the Sinai with Jordan and Saudi Arabia.ĭepicted on the map is Sinai peninsula and the surrounding areas with international borders, governorate capitals, major cities, main roads, and highways. The Sinai is sparsely populated, about 600,000 people live in the region, most of its area is desert, the southern third of the peninsula is mountainous, in the center there are several wadis, dry (ephemeral) riverbeds which contains water only during times of heavy rainfall. The Egyptian portion of the peninsula has an area of about 60,000 km² (23,000 sq mi) this is roughly twice the size of Belgium, or somewhat smaller then than the U.S. 
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