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5 Major Hospital Hacks: Horror Stories From the Cybersecurity Frontlines (ieee.org)
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.
What was the damage done by the x-rays being sent to China?
No, not contrived and complex scenarios. Not slippery slopes. What was the actual damage?