Nearly 200K US military veterans' medical records have been exposed.

Secure Thoughts partnered with Security Expert Jeremiah Fowler to expose highly sensitive medical records related to US military veterans. Here are his findings: 

On April 18th 2021 I discovered a non-password protected database that contained what appeared to be medical information related to military veterans. There were just under 200,000 records publicly exposed. Upon further investigation of the data there were many references to a Jacksonville, North Carolina based company called United Valor Solutions. The records contained patient, physician, employee data and other potentially sensitive information that should have not been publicly exposed.

According to their website: United Valor Solutions provides disability evaluation services for the Veterans Administration and other federal and state agencies.

I immediately sent a responsible disclosure notice of my findings to key contacts whose emails were contained in the database. Public access was restricted within hours and United Valor acted fast to secure the exposed records.

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