The Local reports on a breach involving attempts at accessing a medical log system. Take Care, which is used by medical practices in Stockholm County and on the island of Gotland, “experienced several technical malfunctions this past summer. Several journals were simply connected straight to the internet without a firewall on the central servers,” the report states. A Swedish Medical Association IT expert cautioned, “For eight months, anybody could have waded into any patient journal, probably even including people in the royal family and other people who lead the country.” Swedish Pirate Party MEP Amelia Andersdotter, who has asked that her own medical journals be “removed from Uppsala and Skåne Counties' databases,” has recommended counties seek patient approval before storing files “on computers with Internet access.”
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