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Healthcare Data Continues to Leak Over P2P Networks

Published on July 20, 2010 By ccorbet

Computerworld recently reported on a study presented today by Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business.  The school’s researchers discovered a plethora of documents containing sensitive data on many of the most used P2P Networks.  Over 3,000 files were found by the researchers, including “a spreadsheet containing insurance details, personally identifying information, physician names and diagnosis [...]