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[Resolved][Severity: Moderate][Lost device]

Jinseisha: a USB memory stick holding the names and health conditions of 1,100 emergency patients went missing at Edogawa Hospital

It was lost on November 18, 2020. It held a list of names and health conditions of patients admitted as emergencies between 2016 and 2018.

Disclosed

2021-01-25

Organizations involved

1

Leaked or at risk

1.1K

1,100

Downtime

Unknown

What happened

  1. The USB memory stick was lost. [1]

The memory stick held 1,100 records, including a list of names and health conditions of patients admitted as emergencies between 2016 and 2018. The hospital searched, contacting the department that lost it, the cleaning company and the laundry company, but has not found it. It wrote to the patients concerned to explain and apologize. [1]

Timeline

  1. Started 2020-11-18
  2. Disclosed 2021-01-25
  3. 68 days

Attack or cause

Method
[Lost device]
Impact
[Data leak]
Entry point
Unknown

Data exposed or at risk

[Name][Health data]

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][News]健康状態など緊急患者の個人情報含むUSBメモリを紛失 - 江戸川病院Security NEXT · 2021-01-25