Large-Scale HIPAA Security Breach: Improper Use of GitHub
Recently, the improper use of GitHub led to a large-scale HIPAA security breach, leaving the protected health information (PHI) of 150,000 - 200,000 patients available through publicly searchable employee login credentials for nine healthcare organizations. Software developers use GitHub for source code management and version control when creating, or making changes to, software. One feature of GitHub is the ability to use [...]