Public Health Wales

Public Health Wales

The personal data of 18,105 people who tested positive for coronavirus was accidently exposed by Public Health Wale.

The compromised information including patients’ initials, dates of birth, geographical area and gender were exposed on a publicly accessible server.

The public health soon disabled the public access to the server and secured it from further consequences.

Source: https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/blog/public-health-wales-accidentally-publishes-18000-coronavirus-patients-data

"id": "PUB1349422",
"linkid": "public-health-wales",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "09/2020",
"severity": "90",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
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