Hackers demand $10 million from Virginia government or everybody’s medical files go public
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The Washington Post and others have been writing about a supposed mega-hack of medical files in the State Commonwealth of Virginia. The hackers claim to have accessed 8 million patient records and 35 million prescriptions collected by the Prescription Monitoring Program and gave a Thursday deadline and ransom of $10 million before they returned the files. Details are somewhat sketchy from the Virginia authorities as they try to piece together what happened and whether the threat is real. The ransom statement contains some inconsistencies.
But one detail undermines the self-proclaimed hacker’s credibility: a claim to have Social Security numbers and other sensitive information. The database, set up to help doctors and pharmacists track potential drug abusers with multiple prescriptions, does not contain that kind of information, the report said.
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