23,000 Britons' data was among unsecured info, finds research Gareth Corfield Tue 15 Dec 2020 // 11:40 UTC Share Copy Two thousand servers containing 45 million images of X-rays and other medical scans were left online during the course of the past twelve months, freely accessible by anyone, with no security protections at all. Or so says research by CybelAngel, which sells a Digital Risk Protection Platform. Not only was the sensitive personal information unsecured, but malicious folk had also accessed those servers and poisoned them with apparent malware, the company added. "The fact that we did not use any hacking tools throughout our research highlights the ease with which we were able to discover and access these files," said David Sygula, a senior cybersecurity analyst at CybelAngel and author of the firm's report.