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  Former Bupa employee posted 1 million records for sale on the dark web

  Posted by Unknown Member on 4 November 2020 at 6:30 am

  In 2017, a former BUPA employee was fired after stealing data from the health insurer. This was later found a dark web listing that showed the former employee was selling between 500,000 and 1 million medical records

  The listing contained insurance information from 122 countries and included information like member and registration IDs, names, birth dates, all contact information and information about intermediaries.

  While Bupa’s Managing Director Sheldon Kenton estimated the number of breached records as 108,000, the dark web listing has more than 130,000 insurance records posted from the U.K. alone. Further, MoZeal listed between 500,000 to 1 million insurance records.

  Bupa finally announced the breach which affected international health insurance policyholders. These policies are for those who frequently travel or work overseas. The data included customer information, birth dates, nationalities and other administrative data.

  The employee was fired immediately after the breach was discovered, and the health insurer pursued legal action against him.

  The dark web posting of these medical records is part of an ongoing trend, and highlights the need for better security measures. Hackers are monitoring vulnerabilities online and leveraging insiders to gain access to personal data to sell online.

  But as in Sweden when you have companies giving a million details to large corporations for the past 15 years, nothing is said and done!

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