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Hackers Are Coming for Your Healthcare Records -- Here’s Why

Lucas Mearian | Computer World | June 30, 2016

Data stolen from a bank quickly becomes useless once the breach is discovered and passcodes are changed. But data from the healthcare industry, which includes both personal identities and medical histories, can live a lifetime. Cyberattacks will cost hospitals more than $305 billion over the next five years and one in 13 patients will have their data compromised by a hack, according to industry consultancy Accenture. And a study by the Brookings Institution predicts that one in four data breaches this year will hit the healthcare industry...

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Medical Superbugs: Two German Hospitals Hit with Ransomware

John Leyden | The Register | February 26, 2016

At least two hospitals in Germany have come under attack from ransomware, according to local reports. The alarming incidents follow similar ransomware problems at the US Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. Both the Lukas Hospital in Germany's western city of Neuss and the Klinikum Arnsberg hospital in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia were attacked by file encrypting ransomware, Deutsche Welle reports...

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Meet The World's First Bitcoin Baby

Stacy Cowley | CNN | June 10, 2013

Dr. C. Terence Lee, a fertility specialist based in Brea, Calif., flashes a photo of a beaming infant across a projection screen and announces: "This baby was bought with bitcoins." Read More »

White Hat Hackers Hit 12 American Hospitals To Prove Patient Life 'Extremely Vulnerable'

Thomas Fox-Brewster | Forbes | February 23, 2016

A two-year research project into the security of 12 hospitals and a variety of medical technologies has concluded that patient health is “extremely vulnerable” to digital attacks. The report, shown to FORBES ahead of publication today, comes from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), a San Diego-based security outfit that formed out of Johns Hopkins more than a decade ago...

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