FOMS Sverdlovsk 2017

A massive database belonging to the Sverdlovsk branch of the Russian Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund FOMS was exposed in 2017. The incident involved the leakage of sensitive personal data from approximately 5 million individuals. The dataset originated from regional health insurance systems and became accessible to third parties. The exposed information includes full names of citizens and their dates of birth along with geographic region of residence and the specific insurance companies providing their coverage. Such leaks from regional FOMS branches have been recurring issues within the Russian healthcare and administrative infrastructure due to various security gaps in regional data handling procedures.