Swedish healthcare advice line stored 2.7 million patient phone calls on unprotected web server

The Swedish health minister has called a security lapse which left 2.7 million phone calls to a medical advice service exposed online utterly unacceptable. Recordings of 170,000 hours of calls made to the Vrdguiden 1177 healthcare line were left on an open web server provided by Swedish company Voice Integrate Nordic AB.An anonymous tip off to Computer Sweden, revealed that calls dating back to 2013, were stored without encryption or password protection, meaning they could be accessed by anyone with...