Long Island provider exposes data of 42,000 patients in misconfigured database

Healtcare IT News: Long Island-based Cohen, Bergman, Klepper, Romano MDs misconfigured its online database, exposing the personally identifiable information of about 42,000 patients.

Misconfigured databases are a continued issue for the healthcare industry. The exposed data doesn’t require a hacker to inflict the damage. In fact, Gartner estimates that about 70 to 99 percent of these breaches are caused by internal misconfiguration.

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