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Hacked off: Medical information taken hostage
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Hacked off: Medical information taken hostage
Wednesday 27 September 2017, 01:52 PM

Cyber hackers are often large organisations, some of them running help desks to handle the extortion that they themselves have perpetrated. Medical businesses are vulnerable to these and other cyber criminals, as Fiona Thomas discovers
MEDICAL DATA ARE HIGHLY VALUABLE BECAUSE THE INFORMATION CAN BE USED TO EXTORT MONEY FROM PEOPLE WITH MEDICAL CONDITIONS THEY WANT TO KEEP SECR, Rene_Swindley_2017, Frank Risk Management director Rene Swindley says one in five New Zealand medical practices will have been affected by data loss in recent years
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