Data 2385 AMC patients leaked

amsterdam - The personal data of patients at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam have been visible to others. These include for names, social security numbers, contact information, insurance numbers and descriptions of symptoms. An ethical hacker is Friday penetrated the information. He immediately contacted the hospital, the page pulled offline.

AMC made the leak Tuesday. according to the hospital, the hacker does not have access to medical records. He has not seen or copied the data, but could it have been possible, and that ' we draw our highly '' said a statement.

The hacker got the information through a weakness in a form online which patients can make an appointment at the clinic Oral diseases, Jaw and Facial Surgery.