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HUNDREDS OF DUTCH MEDICAL RECORDS BOUGHT FOR POCKET CHANGE AT FLEA MARKET

theregister.com3 min read

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A Dutch man bought five HDDs for €5 each at a flea market and discovered 15GB of unencrypted medical records from 2011 to 2019. He then purchased ten more drives containing healthcare data from a defunct IT company called Nortade ICT Solutions, which violated Dutch law requiring the certified erasure of medical data storage devices.