As­traZeneca pulls pa­tient da­ta ex­posed on code shar­ing site GitHub

As­traZeneca is still try­ing to fig­ure out how some of its con­fi­den­tial pa­tient da­ta end­ed up on GitHub, a soft­ware de­vel­op­er’s plat­form, but the UK-based com­pa­ny con­firmed to End­points News that the da­ta have now been tak­en down.

“Due to an user er­ror, some da­ta records were tem­porar­i­ly avail­able on a de­vel­op­er plat­form. We stopped ac­cess to this da­ta im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter we have been in­formed. We are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the root cause as well as as­sess­ing our reg­u­la­to­ry oblig­a­tions,” an As­traZeneca spokesper­son said in an emailed state­ment. “The pro­tec­tion of per­son­al da­ta is ex­treme­ly im­por­tant to us and we strive for the high­est stan­dards and com­pli­ance with all ap­plic­a­ble rules and laws.”

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