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Healthcare data leaks a major problem, warns cyber expert

The National Cyber Security Agency has found at least 20 cases in which hackers used web servers used by state agencies to create fake websites to lure victims into filing important data.

A cybersecurity expert has expressed concern about data leakage in the healthcare sector, from local hospitals to the ministerial level, following a series of major data leaks.

The latest high-profile case happened on Oct 7 when there was a posting on raidforums.com, a database sharing and marketplace forum, offering data on 100,000 people from Thai hospitals.

This came one month after a user posted on the same website offering to sell 16 million records of Thai patients’ data.

Referring to the Oct 7 case, Dr Sutee Tuvirat, a physician and a certified information systems security professional, told the Bangkok Post that…

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