A database containing highly sensitive health insurance data of more than 6,000 patients has been leaked on a popular hacker forum.
- The author of the post claims that the data was collected from US insurance giant Humana and contains detailed medical records of the company’s health plan members dating back to 2019.
- The leaked information includes patient’s names, email addresses, IDs, password hashes, medical treatment data, Medicare Advantage Plan listings and more.
A database containing highly sensitive health insurance data of more than 6,000 patients has been leaked on a popular hacker forum.
The third-largest health insurance firm in the US notified 65,000 of its health plan members about a security breach around four months back. “A subcontractor’s employee disclosed medical records to unauthorised individuals between October 12, 2020, and December 16, 2020.
One of the patients affected by the breach filed a lawsuit against the company in May. One of the forum members who downloaded the database claims that the archive contains data from 2020 and not 2019, as suggested by the leaker.
The leaked SQL database comprises more than 823,000 rows of data divided into 97 tables. Some of the tables seem to store highly sensitive patient data of US-based 6,487 individuals, including:
- Full names
- Patient IDs
- Email addresses
- Street addresses with ZIP codes
- Password hashes
- Privacy policy confirmation statuses
- Medicare Advantage Plan data
- Medical treatment data
- Links to photos and videos, some of which may include patient X-rays, CT scans, insurance document scans.
It is still unclear how long the database has been in the leaker’s possession before it was posted on the hacker forum.
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