{"id":61458,"date":"2015-12-24T13:49:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=61458"},"modified":"2015-12-27T13:23:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T18:23:45","slug":"cyber-attackers-have-hacked-private-medical-records-of-over-100-million-people-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/cyber-attackers-have-hacked-private-medical-records-of-over-100-million-people-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Attackers Have Hacked Private Medical Records Of Over 100Million People In 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers have accessed the private medical records of over 100 million people within 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Cyber attackers targeted US health insurance firms on a grand scale, with the largest hack of health care records in history taking place at Anthem in March this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Around 78.8million people were affected by that breach, which experts believe originated in China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">According to figures from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), five large cyber attacks led to about 108.8million people having their medical records illegally accessed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span id=\"ext-gen98\">Investigators that Chinese hackers had been accessing Anthem&#8217;s systems for months and were only caught out when a worker spotted an odd glitch, the <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/f3cbda3e-a027-11e5-8613-08e211ea5317.html#axzz3vAVWnE6q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Financial Times<\/a>\u00a0reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/92d9bb84306ca7bfb1383f11667e556a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-61459\" src=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/92d9bb84306ca7bfb1383f11667e556a-1024x639.jpg\" alt=\"92d9bb84306ca7bfb1383f11667e556a\" width=\"940\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/92d9bb84306ca7bfb1383f11667e556a-1024x639.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/92d9bb84306ca7bfb1383f11667e556a-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/92d9bb84306ca7bfb1383f11667e556a-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/92d9bb84306ca7bfb1383f11667e556a-696x435.jpg 696w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/92d9bb84306ca7bfb1383f11667e556a-1068x667.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/92d9bb84306ca7bfb1383f11667e556a-673x420.jpg 673w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/92d9bb84306ca7bfb1383f11667e556a.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Chinese government has denied any involvement and the U.S. authorities have declined to comment on specific cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Eight of the 10 largest ever hacks of medical records took place this year, according to the HHS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Under privacy laws, medical insurance firms have to protect private data and can face strict penalties if they fail to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;For a lot of them it is often less of a priority than it should be,&#8217; Deven McGraw, deputy director of health information privacy at the HHS\u2019s office of civil rights, told the FT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span id=\"ext-gen100\">Health insurance provider Cigna Corp has\u00a0hired hackers to attack its own systems so the company can find out how to improve their security.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/dec\/24\/100-million-hacked-healthcare-records-makes-2015-s\/\" target=\"_blank\">100M hacked health care records make 2015 the sector\u2019s worst year yet for cybersecurity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers have accessed the private medical records of over 100 million people within 2015. Cyber attackers targeted US health insurance firms on a grand scale, with the largest hack of health care records in history taking place at Anthem in March this year. 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