Security News > 2020 > February > Plastic Surgery Database Exposed: Researchers

An unsecured database belonging to a French technology firm that supplies video and digital equipment to plastic surgery and dermatology clinics exposed content on 900,000 patients, according to a report from two independent security researchers.

The database belongs to French tech firm NextMotion, according to Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, self-described security researchers and hacktivists, according to their blog post on the site vpnMentor.

"These media are stored in a specific database separated from the patients' personal data database - only the media database was exposed, not the patients' database," according to the statement.

The exposed NextMotion database was first discovered on Jan. 24, and it was password protected by Feb. 5, according to Rotem and Locar.

The research report does not make clear if anyone downloaded or copied the contents of the database during the time it was exposed.

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