The leaked data included complete medical records and HIV reports.
According to a report in the Indian Express, Health Solutions has 250 centres in Mumbai and more than 10,000 collections points all over India.
The website of the lab hosted more than 40,000 files of which 35,000 were patients' records.
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The leaked files contained patients' names, ages, gender, blood test reports, lipid profiles and other medical data.
In the case of HIV patients, the data had details of CD4 count (the level of immunity of an HIV-positive patent) and viral load (virus count in the blood).
The leaked data was mostly from patients in Mumbai, the report said, adding that it was more than a year old.
The website has been broken into several times in the last few months. “We stopped uploading files since the website was getting hacked repeatedly. We are moving to a new system,” an official from Health Solutions said.
Health Solutions website developer Sunil Mourya was quoted in the report as saying that the person who effected the intrusion was based in India, though the route used for the hack was through a Chinese server.
