This is not just a sensational headline but something serious that left all HIPAA practitioners shocked throughout the world . Over 120 million CT scans , x rays report , other medical data is online publicly exposed for cybercriminals to sell on DARK WEB .

This disaster happened in India and almost all states of india are impacted. Thanks to the carelessness of doctors that left all the records publicly exposed. Such records can be used by hackers and cyber criminals for their self financial purposes. The data is left exposed through systems called as "PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS"

The email has already been sent to the Indian medical association for comments and we will be updating if received any reply to this.

Implementation of PACS systems is growing as hospitals are going paperless and but less care is being done with the security of systems and HIPAA compliance is nowhere able to protect the crucial data.

Total 97 insecure systems were found in India exposing 121 million image records of patients. This report was by a german security company which further alerted media houses for the blunder being done online.



