Wyoming health department is the latest entity to experience a PHI leak on GitHub. Security experts say organizations can take steps to avoid having sensitive data loaded onto GitHub. Cloud-based services, including GitHub, also have a range of security-related capabilities, experts say. Organizations should use data loss prevention controls to scan for sensitive data before uploading it to the testing site, they say. The Wyoming Department of Health said it became aware on March 10 of an unintentional exposure of 53 files containing COVID-19 and influenza test result data.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/github-leaks-lessons-learned-a-16504