Postby juliej » Wed Apr 03, 2019 5:58 pm
Well, this is worrisome. Hospitals need to use encryption across their networks and to use digital signatures to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
Everyone knows about HIPAA's privacy rules, but no one thinks about the data from their CT scan being compromised. Genome sequencing data would be even easier to manipulate. Flip a few characters and your mutations/variants could tell a whole other story. Of course, there should be a special place in hell for people who would do something like that.
Here's a video of how it works from the Cyber Security Labs @ Ben Gurion University for the curious (or paranoid) out there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mkRAArj-x0Thanks, radnyc, for posting this!
Juliej
Stage IVb, liver/lung mets 8/4/2010
Xelox+Avastin 8/18/10 to 10/21/2011
LAR, liver resec, HAI pump 11/2011
Adjuvant Irinotecan + FUDR
Double lung surgery + ileo reversal 2/2012
Adjuvant FUDR + Xeloda
VATS rt. lung 12/2012 - benign granuloma!
VATS left lung 11/2013
NED 11/22/13 to 12/18/2019, CEA<1