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Hospitals urged to beef up cybersecurity after breach report

Siriraj Hospital has denied its database was leaked following claims by a poster on an internet database-sharing forum website on Sunday offering 38.9 million patient records from the hospital for sale.

The poster, who used the name “WraithMax” on raidforums.com, a database-sharing and marketplace forum, indicated the dataset contains the names, addresses, Thai IDs, phone numbers, gender details, dates of birth and other information.

The poster said the price for the data was negotiable and it would go to only one buyer.

The poster said a sample file was available. Contact could be made through a Telegram app account.

However, the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital of Mahidol University, which operates Siriraj Hospital, yesterday issued a statement confirming the dataset was not from the hospital’s database.

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