Medical data breaches are serious as a rule, but an incident in Brazil may be particularly severe. According to ZDNet, Brazilian newspaper Estadao has learned that a Sao Paolo hospital worker uploaded a spreadsheet with login details for two government databases to GitHub, exposing personal data for millions of COVID-19 patients. The E-SUS-VE and Sivep-Gripe data sets included patients’ names, addresses, identification and medical histories.
The data included both mild cases as well as patients that needed hospitalization. The access even covered high-profile patients like President Jair Bolsonaro, his family, state governors and seven ministers.
