Fear of leakage such as unauthorized login patients at Nagoya University Hospital (ITMEDIA News) --Yahoo! News

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　Nagoya University announced on February 24 that the email account of faculty and staff at the medical school may have received an unauthorized login and may have leaked emails including personal information. The personal information of patients, medical students, and researchers may be browsed, but no misuse of information has been confirmed by the same day. When a spam email with a faculty and staff email address was sent, the faculty and staff of the account were reported and the situation was discovered. The survey revealed that from March to September 2021, three accounts, including the faculty and staff, had unauthorized access from overseas. The email server includes 184 patients 'names, IDs, gender, diagnostic names, surgery, surgical days, surgical information, and 184 medical students' names, grades, student registered, and test results. The name, affiliation, telephone number, email address, etc. of 48 hospital officials were preserved. Nagoya University cut off the PC of the staff from the network on the day of the report. After scanning the inside of the PC with antivirus software, the password of the email account was changed. For those who may be leaked information, explanations of the situation and information on the corresponding window have been sent. According to the university, the attack method is due to the "Blue Force Attack", which explores the password. In the future, we will consider strengthening measures against brute force attacks and introducing multi -factor authentication. The staff will strengthen training to the protection of personal information and raise awareness of information security.

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