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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."
Can anyone give me one reason why the authorities shouldn't find the hacker and promptly execute him?
Yeah, didn't think so...
Where do I sign up?
The last time I requested my medical records from my doctor I was told that they could not provide many of them (especially the expensive MRI images), and of those they could provide they would charge a high fee for duplication. I was looking at paying somewhere between $50-100. I'm fairly certain they were doing this to prevent me from moving to another practice.
If this guy had my records I'd be happy to pay him $10 for them.
Can't wait for there being a single-payer system. The job of hackers world-wide will be much easier as they wouldn't need to waste efforts coming up with different ingenious ways of hacking different organizations.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
since i have never received any healthcare (and according to my HC plan, never will), i have no health care records.
PS: anybody know why my arm keeps going numb?
I've broken almost every bone in my skateboarding. I wear that as a badge of honor. If more ppl. knew that, I'd get mad rep.
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.
Insurers used to insist on getting your health records before accepting you, and now are required to accept you in spite of preexisting conditions. Keeping your health records secret isn't so important as people make it out to be. Exposing them could have social consequences, but most people blab to the world about their medical problems, so that is not much of a point.
I cant imagine being so worthless that this is the only way I could make money.
You keep on invoking those bogeymen, but it never helps. And you never wonder why.
My medical records have my d.o.b, SSN, name, address, and everything needed to use my ID to get credit, file taxes, and get a host of legal docs and IDs.
If this hack was made on systems which were accessible from the Internet, why the frack were they accessible from the Internet in the first place?? If an organization is too cheap, or too lazy, or too inept, or all-of-the-above, to put in place the serious security protections needed for an Internet-facing server, then said organization should never put sensitive data on any of their Internet-facing servers. Even if the organization is on top of things security-wise, if there is no really REALLY good reason for said data to be on an Internet-facing server, do NOT put it on one. Network Security for Dummies.
http://circanews.com/fbi-didnt-inform-some-americans-they-were-on-isis-kill-list/
Most any effective hacker has an inside tract to the data and a motive. In the case of the FBI it goes immediately international because of the amount of moles and lack of trust within the FBI.
Do not for one second think American spy agencies are safeguarding the Internet to protect you. They are the predators. They even named one of their drones Predator.
If only Microsoft and Facebook and Google had the balls like Ed Snowden to sacrifice for all. Remember Ed told us what they were doing back then, it is much more international now.
I was looking at thousands to keep a complete duplicate of my medical folder dating back to birth. Worst part about it was after the last couple of years with my last medical provider I haven't trusted the medical community enough to go back for anything that doesn't involve an emergency room (and about half of those visits, including a 106F temperature would have saved time and money by just staying in bed and seeing if I died.)
Yay for health care!
Since HIPAA allows virtually everyone other than yourself to access your medical records, you might want to go to this site and buy access to your own records while the opportunity exists.
Wonder if this is actually being run out the White House and money funneled through British West Indies to Obama's Kenya bank accounts.
Hmmmm
Yes, this guy should be found and executed. We simply have to up the penalty on these sorts of crimes. He thinks he's special and he's on an ego trip right now, but really he's just scum and should be removed from the planet immediately.
You only deserve, what you paid for. Whether you have a job or not is irrelevant.
You don't deserve free emergency room treatment either.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Nobody cares about 99% of people's health issues, unless you have very well known people you just have a big pile of nothing.
They have no more blackmail potential than a gossipy nurse really, probably less. Stupid hackers took useless data and then put their names out there because they thought it had value. Admited to the crimes with not real money making potential.
Probably make more off ONE CC skimmer than ALL those health records AND if you get busted you face infinitely less time for the CC skimmer.. STOO PID hacker should crawl back into this corner of nothing.
they are all obese and sick with cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. These kind of "troves" become less and less worth by the year in a country like the U.S.