Health Ministry: Patient data on National Neurology Registry at risk of exposure


A scripting error on the NNeuR website may have exposed private information belonging to 17,000 patients. — Screengrab from NNeuR website

Private information belonging to over 17,000 patients are at risk of exposure on the National Neurology Registry (NNeuR) website, according to the Health Ministry in its preliminary investigation.

The Health Ministry issued the statement after taking note of an earlier report by website Free Malaysia Today about how a scripting error on the NNeuR website may have allowed access to a confidential patient database, which included information such as NRIC, phone numbers and addresses.

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