Breaches and incidents
Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITG), Antwerp (Belgium): database of outpatient care application accessed, 2,300 people notified
Per Belga (via Numerikare), ITG said an unauthorized third party gained access in mid-October to a database of “an application used for certain care...
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What happened
- Per Belga (via Numerikare), ITG said an unauthorized third party gained access in mid-October to a database of “an application used for certain care applications in the outpatient clinic”; ITG contacted 2,300 persons. Most of the data was pseudonymised, but for a limited number of people identifiable data was affected.
- Root cause: not disclosed; ITG detected suspicious activity on a server on 12 Oct 2026.
- No attacker named (“an unknown, unauthorized third party”).
- ITG took the server offline immediately, started an investigation and reported the incident to the competent authorities.