Hackers expose patients with rare parathyroid conditions

Hacktivists leaked information on patients registered at HPTH UK, a UK charity that supports people affected by Hypoparathyroidism and other rare parathyroid conditions. Using the handle @LulzSecWiki, they dumped the data on an online bulletin board.

The paste included 581 entries, each containing first and last name, username, e-mail and postal address, telephone number, a description of diagnoses or medical problems, the name and address of the hospital where the individual was treated, and the date they registered with the organization, according to PHIprivacy.net.

An information security professional on 4/7 alerted the charity that its site “had been breached by LulzSec and that our membership registration list had been hacked into and the information leaked on Pastebin. LulzSecWiki announced on Twitter that it had hacked a hospital server, which was not the case, and told its readers to “enjoy!” – HPTH UK said in a statement.