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NL: Major privacy breach: students could access hospital medical records

Posted on February 15, 2019 by pogowasright.org

Ugh.DutchNews.nl reports:

Students working for extra cash at Amsterdam’s OLVG hospital group have for years been given complete access to the medical records system, allowing them to read personal information about friends, family and famous people, the Volkskrant said on Friday.

The leak was made public by a philosophy student who made telephone appointments for the hospital. Fellow students recommended digging up ‘juicy details’ in the files while doing boring jobs, she told the paper.

Read more at DutchNews.nl.

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