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FBI varnar Säpo för medicinhackning i Sverige

FBI varnar den svenska Säkerhetspolisen för medicinhackningar och uppmanar den att gå igenom rapporterade hackerattacker mot medicinska datacenter, rapporterar Sveriges Radio.

Bakgrunden är den hittills största attacken i USA för tre år sedan då nästan 80 miljoner personers medicinska uppgifter stals från sjukförsäkringsbolaget Anthem Blue Cross.

– Patientuppgifter tillsammans med dna-data är lika värdefulla som olja, säger Edward You, FBI:s chef för biologiska vapen, till SR.

You vill nu att Sverige går igenom de få rapporterade attacker som gjorts och noga undersöker vilken information som läckt och till vem.

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Hackningsattacken mot Anthem medical data breach
Wikipedia (en)
The Anthem medical data breach was a medical data breach of information held by Anthem Inc. On February 4, 2015, Anthem, Inc. disclosed that criminal hackers had broken into its servers and potentially stolen over 37.5 million records that contain personally identifiable information from its servers. On February 24, 2015 Anthem raised the number to 78.8 million people whose personal information was affected. According to Anthem, Inc., the data breach extended into multiple brands Anthem, Inc. uses to market its healthcare plans, including, Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Amerigroup, Caremore, and UniCare. Healthlink says it was also a victim. Anthem says the medical information and financial data was not compromised. Anthem has offered free credit monitoring in the wake of the breach. According to Bloomberg News, China may be responsible for this data breach. Michael Daniel, chief adviser on cybersecurity for President Barack Obama, said he would be changing his own password. According to The New York Times about 80 million company records were hacked, and there is fear that the stolen data will be used for identity theft. The compromised information contained names, birthdays, medical IDs, social security numbers, street addresses, e-mail addresses and employment information, including income data.
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