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5 Major Hospital Hacks: Horror Stories From the Cybersecurity Frontlines (ieee.org)

Posted by BeauHD on from the exposed-damage-control dept.

the_newsbeagle writes: We don't often get insider accounts of hacks against major institutions like hospitals because they immediately go into damage control mode. But at a SXSW talk, a couple of experts told tales out of school. The experts, [John Halamka, CIO of the Boston hospital Beth Israel Deaconness, and Kevin Fu, a University of Michigan engineering professor, recounted incidents in which hackers downloaded patient X-rays to China, took down entire networks, fooled Harvard doctors, and more.

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  1. Solution found, needs to be adopted... by ka9dgx · · Score: 3, Informative

    The solution to this problem is known, but nobody seems to know about it...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re:Confidentiality and privacy were breached. by myid · · Score: 5, Informative

    Right. According to the IEEE article,

    Someone had also downloaded about 2000 patient X-rays to a computer somewhere in China.

    “Who knew there was a black market for X-rays?” Halamka says. He learned that some Chinese nationals can’t get visas to leave the country because they have infectious lung diseases such as tuberculosis. A clean lung X-ray is therefore a valuable commodity.