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ZOLL Medical Corporation reported a data breach that affected over 275,000 of its customers. The company informed that, during a server migration, e-mails that stored personal data were compromised. The investigation has led them to believe that the information remained exposed from November 8 to December 28, 2018. However, ZOLL did not clarify if attackers had hacked the server or if it was an unintentional mistake; they just informed that a third party was in charge of the exposed archives. At present, the company declared that the compromised data included names, dates of birth, addresses, some social security numbers, and partial medical information.  Due to the sensitive information that the company left unprotected during the server migration, we assess that the data breach could likely pose a significant threat to the impacted clients. Although it is uncertain if hackers attacked the company's server, it is still worrisome that data remained exposed for over a month. We find it likely that more breache