Leak left 243 million Brazilians’ medical records and personal info ripe for the picking
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The personal information of more than 243 million Brazilians was potentially accessible for at least six months thanks to weakly encoded credentials kept in the source code of the Brazilian Ministry of Health's website (via ZDNet). The security issue was first reported by Brazilian publication Estadao.
The personal data of anyone who had registered with Sistema Unico de Saude (SUS), Brazil's national health system, could be viewed. That data included people's full names, addresses, and telephone numbers, reported Estadao. The database also includes records of living and dead people as the population of Brazil was more than 211 million in 2019, according to The World Bank, which is about 32 million fewer people than the reported number of...