
Leading GOP candidate and brain-surgeon Ben Carson just got hit by hostile research into his 15,000 or so medical operations. “They found five or six disgruntled people, that’s a very small number, and many of those cases never went anywhere, because the legal system said, ‘Are you kidding me?’ and threw it out,” he said.
by Neil Munro8 Oct 2015, 3:34 PM PST0

It is not surprising that hackers broke into the UCLA’s health system to try to gain access to some of the 4.5 million patients’ records, given the sheer scale of personal health data that has been compromised. But what is shocking is that those records were never protected with a basic encryption, and lost laptops were not required to be reported. Although UCLA said there was no evidence at this time that any patient files were taken, the investigation is ongoing.
by Chriss W. Street19 Jul 2015, 6:27 PM PST0