2.7 million patient calls to Swedish healthcare hotline left unprotected online

The audio recordings of 2.7 millions calls made to 1177 VÃ¥rdguiden — Sweden’s healthcare hotline — were left exposed to anyone online, according to Swedish tech publication Computer Sweden. The 170,000 hours of incredibly sensitive calls were stored on an open web server without any encryption or authentication, leaving personal information completely exposed for anyone with a web browser. Phone calls to the MEDICALL help service were stored as WAV audio files on an unsecured server. Picture via @b9AcE. pic.twitter.com/KlkPmvORft — @mikko (@mikko) February 18, 2019 Computer Sweden listened to some of the recordings after having made efforts to limit…

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