{"id":72577,"date":"2020-01-22T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/01\/22\/some-troops-sensitive-medical-data-can-be-found-online-with-the-right-tools\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:52:08","slug":"some-troops-sensitive-medical-data-can-be-found-online-with-the-right-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2020\/01\/22\/some-troops-sensitive-medical-data-can-be-found-online-with-the-right-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Some troops\u2019 sensitive medical data can be found online, with the right tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sensitive medical information belonging to thousands of military service members can be found online, according to Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who is calling on the Defense Department for its swift removal, along with an explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Insecure data practices at three Army health facilities \u2014 Fort Belvoir Community Hospital in Virginia, Ireland Army Health Clinic, Fort Knox, Kentucky, and Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina \u2014 have left personally identifiable medical information of military patients online, where anyone with the technological know-how can access X-ray, MRI or CT images can find, the senator said in a letter to the Defense Department Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Warner\u2019s office, the three military health facilities have a collective 358 data sets online, covering roughly the past week of archived images. An average 75 data sets are added per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/10\/03\/defense-department-to-tighten-data-security-after-settlement-with-veterans-group\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Cover_1.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Defense Department to tighten data security after settlement with veterans group<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">A web site used to verify military status was open to potential identity thieves and scammers, advocates charge.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat means that over the span of a year, more than 27,000 data sets are being uploaded \u2026 if you look at it by person \u2026 the information of 9,000 service members is exposed each year, with the potential of being collected and used by malicious actors,\u201d according to a statement from Warner\u2019s office provided to Military Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warner.senate.gov\/public\/_cache\/files\/0\/a\/0a525aa8-0458-4422-8b87-8fcc494dbb78\/1B82AC9F494F663E5E76AF1BAE215F48.-untitled-.pdf\" target=_blank>correspondence to Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs Thomas McCaffery,<\/a> Warner said the problem was discovered by researchers at Greenbone Networks, a Germany-based security firm that identified medical record security problems in at least 52 countries last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the senator, the researchers accessed the images from their headquarters, with its German IP addresses. The issue is with the facilities\u2019 Picture and Archiving Communications Systems, or PACS, which were not secured, Warner said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Images, along with personal identification numbers, including DoD ID numbers, are visible on many of the files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis itself should have triggered alarms by the hospital information security systems,\u201d Warner wrote. \u201cThe exposure of this information is an outrageous violation of privacy and represents a grave national security vulnerability that could be exploited by state actor and others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a series of tweets Friday, Greenbone Chief Marketing Officer Dirk Schrader clarified that the data from the three hospitals were stored on one archiving system, which the company had not \u201cestablished whether it is directly used by the U.S. Department of Defense or not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview Monday, Defense Health Agency Chief Information Officer Patrick Flanders denied the system containing the data was Pentagon-owned. He said the images either were located on commercial servers belonging to companies doing business with DoD or were available because patients took their images to private practices, where they became compromised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHere\u2019s the truth: No government networks, systems or servers were breached by Greenbone Networks\u2019 ethical hackers,\u201d Flanders said. \u201cInstead, commercial servers is where they got this data.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, an investigation by ProPublica and the German broadcasting organization Bayerischer Rundfunk uncovered millions of Americans\u2019 medical images on 187 unprotected servers across the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Flanders, the imagery availability on unsecured commercial servers is a \u201cnational problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat\u2019s happened is DoD has either shared its data with a commercial entity that failed to follow security procedures or individual patients have gone to hospitals and gotten their record \u2026 when you are referred to private practice \u2026 you go get it, and it\u2019s uploaded into the commercial world and it\u2019s susceptible,\u201d Flanders said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warner is co-chair of the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus. After ProPublica released its report, he pressed private companies as well as the Department of Health and Human Services to remove or secure more than 31 million images and 1.5 million exam records from cyber-snooping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his letter, Warner asked McCaffrey to \u201cremediate the situation immediately\u201d and respond to questions regarding the information security management practices at all military medical facilities \u2014 practices considered crucial as the Defense Health Agency continues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/2019\/07\/31\/va-migrates-health-records-for-235-million-veterans-ahead-of-integration-with-the-militarys-system\/\" target=_blank>to roll out its Defense Department-wide electronic medical records system, MHS Genesis.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He asked McCaffery to explain how the department plans to fix the problem and explain the practices the military medical hospitals use to secure networks and log, monitor, transfer and access files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flanders said to address the problem, he plans to determine which commercial entities were responsible. \u201cI have the IP addresses that the Greenbone folks got their data from and now I\u2019m trying to assess which American companies are those \u2026 I can\u2019t use my cyber resources to pick over commercial company stuff. 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