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Data breach exposes tens of thousands of patients records, via Australia’s biggest medical imaging provider — Intruder accessed I-MED’s radiology portals using credentials left online for a year


Exclusive: An intruder accessed I-MED's patient data — including thousands of medical reports and scan images — using credentials left online for a year.

This information includes medical reports, scan images, names, addresses and other details that were stored in I-MED’s internal systems, which were accessed by a third party. Last week, an anonymous user contacted Crikey claiming they had gained access to an internal I-MED online platform used by its radiologists to view patient information. Exclusive: An intruder accessed I-MED's patient data — including thousands of medical reports and scan images — using credentials left online for a year.

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