Dr Lal PathLabs, one of the largest lab testing companies in India, left a huge cache of patient data on a public server for months, TechCrunch has learned. The lab testing giant, headquartered in New Delhi, serves some 70,000 patients a day, and quickly became a major player in testing patients for COVID-19 after winning approval from the Indian government. But the company was storing hundreds of large spreadsheets packed with sensitive patient data in a storage bucket, hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), without a password, allowing anyone to access the data inside.
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@Warren Poschman, Senior Solutions Architect, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Another week, another AWS misconfigured server. ..."
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@Niamh Muldoon, Senior Director of Trust and Security EMEA, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Dr Lal PathLabs were fortunate to have received warning from a benevolent security expert...."
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@Niamh Muldoon, Senior Director of Trust and Security EMEA, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Dr Lal PathLabs were fortunate to have received warning from a benevolent security expert...."
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@Jamie Akhtar, CEO and Co-founder, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Breaches often happen when organisations are overwhelmed just as in this case. ..."
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@Jamie Akhtar, CEO and Co-founder, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Breaches often happen when organisations are overwhelmed just as in this case. ..."
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@Chris Hauk, Consumer Privacy Champion, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Wow! Another day, another unprotected bucket of data. ..."
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@Chris Hauk, Consumer Privacy Champion, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Wow! Another day, another unprotected bucket of data. ..."
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@Sergio Lourerio, Cloud Security Director , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"companies using AWS for analytics or big data projects and making careless mistakes in the misconfiguration..."
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@Sergio Lourerio, Cloud Security Director , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"companies using AWS for analytics or big data projects and making careless mistakes in the misconfiguration..."
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