Nightmare down under: For sale: any Australian's full health record for a mere $22

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Nightmare down under: For sale: any Australian's full health record for a mere $22
> Date: July 5, 2017 at 11:05:18 AM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
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> Nightmare down under: For sale: any Australian's full health record for a mere $22
>
> http://boingboing.net/2017/07/05/medicare-machine.html
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>       A hacker who appears to have ongoing, continuous access to
>       Australia's electronic health care records is selling access
>       to any full record for 0.0089 bitcoin, or about USD22.  The
>       records are for sale through a darknet auction site, and the
>       seller promises that they will soon offer bulk access. All
>       that's needed to retrieve a record is first and last name and
>       date of birth. The Guardian confirmed the authenticity of the
>       records by paying for a reporter's own e-health file.  Giant
>       databases of sensitive information are very tempting targets.
>       The Australian health record contains lots of potentially
>       compromising and profitable information, including everything
>       needed to commit several kinds of identity theft.  Donald
>       Trump has proposed to aggregate a similar database through his
>       voting suppression efforts (he describes this as an "election
>       integrity commission"). 44 states have declined to deliver all
>       the data Trump requested.  Trump owe his own election to leaks
>       and hacks, and this incident highlights the kinds of outcomes
>       we can expect to see when enormous quantities of potentially
>       explosive data is aggregated and stored -- it's the equivalent
>       of refining harmless uranium ore into immortal, lethal
>       plutonium and then praying that none of that stuff leaks.
>
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