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Dark Web is fertile ground for stolen medical records

IBM: Almost 100 million health-care records were compromised last year, making them a hacker’s No. 1 target. Experts expect a similar increase in tax fraud this year, possibly rising to as much as $21 billion. The IRS has suspended processing of 4.8 million suspicious returns worth $11.8 billion this year. Cybercriminals sell the medical records to other criminals on the so-called dark Web, a portion of the Internet not indexed by search engines. A Social Security number can be purchased on the dark Web for around $15, medical records fetch $60 per record.”]

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/10/dark-web-is-fertile-ground-for-stolen-medical-records.html

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