Millions of Australians’ sensitive medical images, data left openly accessible

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Millions of Australians' sensitive medical images, data left openly accessible

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German security researchers scanning the internet have found hundreds of millions of sensitive medical images being easily accesible on unprotected servers worldwide, including around 2.6 million in Australia.

Security vendor Greenbone looked for internet-connected Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) servers that healthcare organisations use to store radiology images of patients for medical professionals to review.

With the help of scanning systems such as Shodan.io and Censys.io, the researchers found a large amount of completely unprotected PACS servers.

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