It Looks Like Things Are Getting Much Nastier Out There! Be Prepared And Alert.

This appeared a little while ago.Why Hackers Are Targeting Health DataCIO: 'Today It's a Totally Different Kind of Attack'By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, July 7, 2014. Follow Marianne @HealthInfoSec Two years ago, a Utah Department of Health server was breached, allegedly by Eastern European hackers, and 780,000 individuals were impacted. Last month, the Montana health department confirmed a server breach impacting up to 1.3 million individuals.And now the State of Vermont confirms that a development server of the Vermont Health Connect, the state's health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act, experienced a cyberattack last December, in which hackers allegedly accessed data 15 times. The attack, which was tracked to a Romanian IP address, went undetected for about a month.In this latest case, because the server was only a development system that did not contain any production data, there was no breach, Lawrence Miller, Vermont's chief of healthcare reform, tells Information... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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