Mass personal data theft from Paris Covid tests: hospitals

Hackers stole the idiosyncratic information of astir 1.4 cardinal radical who took COVID-19 tests successful the Paris portion successful the mediate of 2020, infirmary officials successful the French superior disclosed connected Wednesday.

Hospital officials said they filed a ailment with the Paris prosecutor's bureau connected Wednesday aft confirming connected September 12 that specified a cyber attack took spot implicit the summer.

Stolen were the identities, social information numbers and interaction details of radical tested arsenic good arsenic the identities and interaction details of wellness professionals who dealt with them, on with the trial results, the hospital organisation said.

But nary different health information was stolen, they said.

In all, "the stolen files interest 1.4 cardinal people, astir exclusively for tests taken successful the mediate of 2020" successful the Paris region, the hospitals organisation said successful a statement.

Those affected "will beryllium notified individually successful the coming days", they said.

The facts of the lawsuit were besides reported to France's information watchdog, the CNIL, and the French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI).

The CNIL said it had "opened an probe into this violation".

The hackers did not people the nationalist investigating files but alternatively a "secure work for sharing files", which were utilized successful September 2020 to transmit accusation "useful for interaction tracing" to assorted wellness authorities.

The ministry of wellness besides told AFP it has decided to record a ailment truthful that "all airy is brought to carnivore connected the leak, its consequences, and each the measures needed are taken to forestall a repetition of specified an event".

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