Misconfiguration Leads to Major Health Data Breach

UW Medicine says in a statement that on Dec. 26, 2018, it became aware of a vulnerability on a website server that made protected internal files available and visible by search on the internet on Dec. 4, 2018.The mistake was discovered by a patient who was conducting a Google search for their own name and found a file containing their information. The patient reported this to UW Medicine, a Seattle, Washington-based academic medical system that includes several hospitals and a...