A researcher with Identity Finder recently discovered that nearly 300,000 Californians’ medical records were openly accessible on the Internet for an undisclosed amount of time. The researcher, Aaron Titus, said the data was “available to anyone in the world with half a brain and access to Google.” The fiasco could have been easily prevented by requiring a password to access the data and instructing search engines not to index the pages.

This breach has been labeled a case of “felony stupidity.” The data included insurance forms, social security numbers, and doctors’ notes. Clearly these types of mistakes have left a lot of people vulnerable to internet predators.

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