Hacker Advertises Slew of Alleged Healthcare Organization Records
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacker-advertises-slew-of-alleged-healthcare-organization-records
A hacker is advertising hundreds of thousands of alleged
records from healthcare organizations on a dark web
marketplace, including social security and insurance policy
numbers. The data could be used for anything from getting
lines of credit to opening bank accounts to carrying out loan
fraud and much more, the hacker selling the data, who goes by
the handle "thedarkoverlord," told Motherboard. News site
Deep Dot Web first reported the news on Saturday. The breaches
supposedly come from three different healthcare organizations:
one in Farmington, Missouri with 48,000 records; another in
Atlanta, Georgia with 397,000 entries, and the third in the
Central/Midwest US with 210,000 records. Thedarkoverlord has
decided to not name the organizations, as he has threatened
each with a ransom demand.
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