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Michael Riley

A researcher at Hauri

Even your medical records aren’t safe. Chinese group hacks into hospital’s patient records

Technology

When you go to the hospital, you give up a lot of very personal data, not the least of which is your name, address and Social Security number. Recently, a group of Chinese hackers associated with their government’s cyber espionage program branched out from their usual work and targeted a huge hospital system’s patient database — and got away with a huge haul of personal data.

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