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title: "Website leaves 43,000 sensitive medical records exposed – Naked Security"
url: "https://thecybersecurityplace.com/website-leaves-43000-sensitive-medical-records-exposed-naked-security/"
date: "2016-12-06T07:02:46+00:00"
section: "Identity Theft"
tags:
  - "Data Breach"
  - "Identity Theft"
source: "nakedsecurity.sophos.com"
source_url: "http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/12/05/researcher-gobsmacked-by-data-breach-exposing-35000-indian-patients/"
---

# Website leaves 43,000 sensitive medical records exposed – Naked Security

December 6, 2016 · Reported by nakedsecurity.sophos.com

> Being notified of a data breach is never good news but nobody expects a company whose data have been exposed to be hard to contact.
>
> And yet this is what happened when respected security researcher Troy Hunt was tipped off last week about a website that had accidentally left a directory containing 43,203 medical files in an unsecured state.

[Read the full article at nakedsecurity.sophos.com](http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/12/05/researcher-gobsmacked-by-data-breach-exposing-35000-indian-patients/)

**Tags:** [Data Breach](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/tag/data-breach/) · [Identity Theft](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/tag/identity-theft/)