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SA Health Data Breach (2005)

SA Health

lowVERIS
Disclosed

January 1, 2005

7755 days ago

Records

7.2K

Confirmed

Root Cause

Misconfiguration

Industry

Government

Description

Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital PHOTO: SA Health says there is no evidence the data was used inappropriately. RELATED STORY: My Health confusion — how is a privacy breach defined anyway?RELATED STORY: 'This is private, personal information': NSW Government criticised for medical file breachRELATED STORY: New women's and children's hospital 'could cost twice Royal Adelaide Hospital per bed' SA Health has revealed that thousands of children's medical test results have been publicly available online for the past 13 years. The data with the names, date of birth and test results for about 7,200 pathology tests was embedded in a document on the Women's and Children's Hospital website from 2005.