More than 1.7 million therapy logs for US patients are exposed online

Over 1.7 million activity logs, comprised of an estimated 5.3 terabytes of mental health data, were left exposed online by the healthcare start-up Confidant Health .

The Austin -based firm promised to build 'the next-generation of virtual care' for those seeking addiction treatment and other behavioral therapies.

The severe privacy lapse comes amid a summer of catastrophic leaks, including July 's Independence Day ' RockYou2024' which exposed 10 billion passwords to cyber criminals.

Read maintained that Confident Health conducted its own internal security audit alongside contracted external experts to confirm the security of its patients' data. The company's policies have been updated to prevent future exposures, he said. The firm also alerted its customers to the inquiry: 'When we were notified about the improper configuration by a third -party security researcher,' Read said, 'several patient records were accessed by data security personnel.' 'Those patients have been informed that their information was accessed by non-clinical staff,' according to the co-founder..