Personal Data of Thousands of Covid-19 Patients Leaked in Moscow

Click to expand Image A woman wearing a face mask looks at her smartphone as she walks through a street in Moscow, Russia, November 23, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Last week, Russian media reported a major personal data leak of Covid-19 patients admitted to Moscow hospitals, as well as Muscovites who had been ordered to self-quarantine, or fined over violating the self-quarantine regulations. According to the online news outlet Readovka, the leaked data included names, home addresses, insurance numbers, phone numbers and medical data of up to 300,000 people. Most of…

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