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US Healthcare Records Offered For Sale Online
An anonymous reader writes:Three U.S. healthcare organisations are reportedly being held to ransom by a hacker who stole data on hundreds of thousands of patients. The hacker has also put the 650,000 records up for sale on dark web markets where stolen data is traded. Prices for the different databases range from $100,000 to $411,000. Buyers have already been found for some of the stolen data, the hacker behind the theft told news site Motherboard. No information about the size of the ransom payment sought by the data thief has emerged, although he did say it was "a modest amount compared to the damage that will be caused to the organisations when I decide to publicly leak the victims."
Under the GOP systems and blacklist is needed to keep the very sick from being able to get an plan and we need to make it easy for them to find a way to get your info so at the time when really need they can point to this list and say that is pre-existing.