Hack laboratory
Datahack medical world turns out to be much bigger: also research skin, urine and penis stolen
By Daniël Verlaan © ANP RTL Nieuws
The data breach at the laboratory that conducts population cervical cancer screening is greater than reported. In addition to stolen data from 485,000 women who participated in that population survey, data from skin, urine and penis examinations have also been stolen. A small part of it is now on the dark web.
This is according to research by RTL Nieuws. It concerns names, residential addresses and dates of birth of patients, their social security numbers and information and results of the study. Advice has also been taken as a result of investigations.
These are patients who have had examinations performed by healthcare providers and independent clinics that have been sent to the Clinical Diagnostics laboratory.
Among other things, information and results of examinations on urine, skin, vagina, penis, anus and wound fluid have been published.
Hospitals and general practitioners
Based on the leaked data, these are patients from the Leiden University Medical Center, Amphia Hospital and Alrijne Hospital, among others. Many studies written out by general practitioners can also be found in the leaked data. The dates are from 2022 to this year.
The data put online by the criminals include 53,516 people who had an investigation done by the general practitioner, RTL Nieuws calculated. The actual number leaked is expected to be much higher: currently only about 100 megabytes of data have been published, the criminals claim to have stolen 300 gigabytes.
Both Clinical Diagnostics and the criminals behind the hack have been asked to respond.
Population survey
Among the 485,000 women who participated in the population survey for cervical cancer, in addition to their private data and citizen service number, test results of smears and self-tests were stolen.
Elza den Hertog, the chairman of the board of Population Research Netherlands, says that the institute is extremely shocked. "We understand that women who have participated in population surveys through us are of course also very frightened by this. I would like to say to them that we are very sorry that this happened."
[Dutch] https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binnenland/artikel/5522760/datalek-baarmoederhalskanker-veel-groter-ook-onderzoek-huid-urine