Patients pass through thermal scanning as they enter Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok. Their records may be among the reported huge data theft from the hospital. (File photo: Chanat Katanyu)
About 39 million purported patient records from Siriraj Hospital have been offered for sale on an internet database-sharing forum in what appears to be the latest hack of the country’s public health sector.
Authorities are investigating the post, which was on raidforums.com.
The leak is said to include records of VIP patients.
There was no clear indication whether the person who on Sunday offered to sell 38.9 million patient records really had such a huge trove of data.
However, the poster said a sample file was available. Contact could be made through a Telegram app account.
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