Re Nightmare down under: For sale: any Australian's full health record for a mere $22

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Eric Burger <eburger () standardstrack com>
Date: Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [IP] Nightmare down under: For sale: any Australian's full
health record for a mere $22
To: Farber David <dave () farber net>


[for IP]

The sad thing is $22 is much less expensive than what it costs a patient in
the U.S. to get *their own* health care records. Maybe this should be used
to set a cap on the cost of records requests?

On Jul 5, 2017, at 11:56 AM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:



Begin forwarded message:

*From: *Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
*Subject: **[ NNSquad ] Nightmare down under: For sale: any Australian's
full health record for a mere $22*
*Date: *July 5, 2017 at 11:05:18 AM EDT
*To: *nnsquad () nnsquad org


Nightmare down under: For sale: any Australian's full health record for a
mere $22

http://boingboing.net/2017/07/05/medicare-machine.html

  A hacker who appears to have ongoing, continuous access to
Australia's electronic health care records is selling access
to any full record for 0.0089 bitcoin, or about USD22.  The
records are for sale through a darknet auction site, and the
seller promises that they will soon offer bulk access. All
that's needed to retrieve a record is first and last name and
date of birth. The Guardian confirmed the authenticity of the
records by paying for a reporter's own e-health file.  Giant
databases of sensitive information are very tempting targets.
The Australian health record contains lots of potentially
compromising and profitable information, including everything
needed to commit several kinds of identity theft.  Donald
Trump has proposed to aggregate a similar database through his
voting suppression efforts (he describes this as an "election
integrity commission"). 44 states have declined to deliver all
the data Trump requested.  Trump owe his own election to leaks
and hacks, and this incident highlights the kinds of outcomes
we can expect to see when enormous quantities of potentially
explosive data is aggregated and stored -- it's the equivalent
of refining harmless uranium ore into immortal, lethal
plutonium and then praying that none of that stuff leaks.

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