A hacker has advertised 650,000 patient records as up for sale on Dark Net. The hacker is also holding the records for ransom, asking the as-yet-unnamed healthcare organizations to pay $100,000, $205,000 and $411,000. The data breach and subsequent online sale was originally reported by the news site Deep Dot Web; patient records include those of Blue Cross Blue Shield. “The total is staggering,” said Dean Sysman, CTO and co-founder of Cymmetria, a private American network security company.”]
Source: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3088963/hacker-puts-650k-u-s-patient-records-up-for-sale.html