Some insurers don't use secure websites and/or other means of electronic communications to transfer these very sensitive photos, according to the Netherlands public broadcaster NOS. Patients reported that their insurance companies have lost their photos, and denied their requests for reconstructive surgeries following a breast-cancer diagnosis.
In addition to being intrusive and humiliating - and, we're told, not a requirement for any other types of cancer-related surgeries - cancer patients' photos have been stolen by ransomware crews in the past, and then used to extort victims. Some of these images ended up published online in data dumps, and now patients are suing the healthcare provider for allowing the "preventable" and "seriously damaging" leak.
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