The records included insurance forms, social security number and physicians’ notes.
Owner Joel Hecht said the company posted the records on a website it believed only employees had access to, according to the report. However, Aaron Titus, a researcher with Identity Finder, found the company’s medical records through Internet searches.
Mr. Titus said the company did not require a password or prohibit search engines from indexing the pages, two steps that could have prevented the data breach. Mr. Hecht said the company’s internal security policies were not followed.
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