By Charlie WarzelAug. 13, 2019
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Here’s a terrifying sentence: Hackers are “becoming increasingly interested in the susceptibility of health data.”
At least that’s the takeaway from researchers at the University of Southern California’s Center for Body Computing. They were at the Blackhat hacker conference in Las Vegas recently, where programmers set up a fake hospital environment and invited medical tech companies to bring their devices for a live stress test. “There was a lot of talk about the ease of insurance fraud and blackmail with some of this legacy software that is very hard and frustrating to update,” Dr. Mona Sobhani, who is the head of research for the Center for Body Computing, told me.