Medical equipment is increasingly connected to the Internet so that data can be fed into electronic patient records systems. Researchers located medical devices by searching for terms like “radiology” and “podiatry” in Shodan, a search engine for finding Internet-connected devices. Much of the medical gear was still using the default logins and passwords provided by manufacturers. The researchers accessed the network of one unnamed health provider and found detailed information about more than 68,000 devices, including host names, a description of what the equipment does and its physical location in the hospital.”]

