AMERICAblog: Massive privacy breach leads to extortion over medical records
green_libertarian
· 1 year ago
I knew a breach like that complete with extortion would sometime happen. It's bad.
Breaking, Franken wins victory to check Absentee ballots:
<iJudge grants Franken ballot access request by Tim Nelson, Minnesota Public Radio November 19, 2008
St. Paul, Minn. — A Ramsey County District Court judge has ordered the release of information on absentee voters who had their ballots disqualified in this month's U.S. Senate election.
The campaign for DFL U.S. Senate challenger Al Franken asked for the names of voters whose ballots weren't counted, because they hadn't fulfilled all the requirements for absentee voting.
This is good news, as this race will likely, literally come down to a handful of votes.
lutton
· 1 year ago
yup, our family uses express scripts...
ps. that's via the school district of philadelphia, which has something like 20,000 employees (and their family members)!
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
seems like they'd just have to set up a sting operation, and follow the money.
kinda foolish to try extortion in the digital age, eventually everything is tracked.
renegademom
· 1 year ago
my family has express scripts too...through the state of new mexico.......
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Privacy is a soft-focus reassurance not to be mistaken as a fact. It has a diminishing role in our social structure as individual rights diminish and it cannot be maintained in the push and shove of cyberspace.
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
I'm surprised there is not more of this activity reported. Anyone with the tech knowledge and criminal intent could do massive damage; security just isn't as good as it could be for many companies.
Remember all the personal information stolen over the past years? I think Wayne Madsen was keeping a list but I haven't been over there in a while. I suspect that was more for ID fraud than anything else, though.
In the age of Somalian pirates, I wouldn't expect anything less on the Internet.
Asterix
· 1 year ago
A million bucks, while not what it used to be, should be sufficient to get some enterprising hacker to make a nice nest egg from discovering these people.
But this does bring up a question about why everyone in the health care chain needs to know DOB, SSN and other things that have nothing to do with getting medicine to the sick. Surely there are alternative systems of dispensing meds that are not so invasive.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
everyone in healthcare now wants to know that info... to check your credit.
if you don't have a pre-existing condition they can use to make you pay massive premiums, they'll use your credit score to justify it.
mgardener
· 1 year ago
Do you thin we can finally get Sarah Palin's health records? Like she PROMISED???? I'd be willing to trade mine for hers. See what a great system the neocons have brought us?
Than God Obama won and we do not have to endure 4 MORE years!
moreleesafer
· 1 year ago
Obama is supposed to appointing a Technology Czar. I wonder if this type of stuff will fall under his umbrella.
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
I just signed up for Express Script program under the military retiree program. I don't know if I should use it or not. They already had some information on what kind of meds I use already. Gee what should I do? Suggestions?
KLG
· 1 year ago
This is exactly why medical information should NOT be computerized and made readily available to health care providers, despite the fact that it makes medical sense to do it. Too many bad actors out there, including insurance companies under the current system.
doc
· 1 year ago
Good thing I have not been to the doctor in over 10 years! next time I go maybe I'll use an alias, yeah, just like in the comments.
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Breaking, Franken wins victory to check Absentee ballots:
<iJudge grants Franken ballot access request
by Tim Nelson, Minnesota Public Radio
November 19, 2008
St. Paul, Minn. — A Ramsey County District Court judge has ordered the release of information on absentee voters who had their ballots disqualified in this month's U.S. Senate election.
The campaign for DFL U.S. Senate challenger Al Franken asked for the names of voters whose ballots weren't counted, because they hadn't fulfilled all the requirements for absentee voting.
Franken's attorneys argued that they shouldn't be thrown out on legal technicalities, and they hope state officials will still count them.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/20...
This is good news, as this race will likely, literally come down to a handful of votes.
ps. that's via the school district of philadelphia, which has something like 20,000 employees (and their family members)!
kinda foolish to try extortion in the digital age, eventually everything is tracked.
Remember all the personal information stolen over the past years? I think Wayne Madsen was keeping a list but I haven't been over there in a while. I suspect that was more for ID fraud than anything else, though.
In the age of Somalian pirates, I wouldn't expect anything less on the Internet.
But this does bring up a question about why everyone in the health care chain needs to know DOB, SSN and other things that have nothing to do with getting medicine to the sick. Surely there are alternative systems of dispensing meds that are not so invasive.
if you don't have a pre-existing condition they can use to make you pay massive premiums, they'll use your credit score to justify it.
I'd be willing to trade mine for hers. See what a great system the neocons have brought us?
Than God Obama won and we do not have to endure 4 MORE years!