<story><title>Nearly 200K Medical Records of US Military Veterans Leaked</title><url>https://securethoughts.com/us-military-veterans-medical-data-leakage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>disabled</author><text>I cannot wait for my US based medical record to be leaked at some point. There will probably be somebody who creates a torrent of these records to be downloaded at some point in time.&lt;p&gt;I have little faith in the US government or the various US healthcare providers keeping their databases properly secured from attack. I am saying this as somebody with 2 rare immune-mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system, plus type 1 diabetes (autoimmune and insulin-dependent).&lt;p&gt;I have far more faith in the European Union, even though it has issues. I live in Europe, and it is a breath of fresh air.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lbriner</author><text>The EU might have good intention but with the current system (technical and bureaucratic), you still cannot know that data has not been hacked and misused - it only takes one screwup and with the people I have worked with over the years, there is no reason to think that a screw up is ever that far away.&lt;p&gt;I think the only saving grace at the moment is that the chance of any individual being taken advantage of is low simply because there are so many people.&lt;p&gt;I would be much more worried if I was important and more likely to be targetted.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nearly 200K Medical Records of US Military Veterans Leaked</title><url>https://securethoughts.com/us-military-veterans-medical-data-leakage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>disabled</author><text>I cannot wait for my US based medical record to be leaked at some point. There will probably be somebody who creates a torrent of these records to be downloaded at some point in time.&lt;p&gt;I have little faith in the US government or the various US healthcare providers keeping their databases properly secured from attack. I am saying this as somebody with 2 rare immune-mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system, plus type 1 diabetes (autoimmune and insulin-dependent).&lt;p&gt;I have far more faith in the European Union, even though it has issues. I live in Europe, and it is a breath of fresh air.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>I_am_tiberius</author><text>I live in Europe and I would like to decide myself whether my healthcare data is stored somewhere in the in the long term or not.</text></comment>