5 Major Hospital Hacks: Horror Stories from the Cybersecurity Frontlines
In real-world war, combatants typically don’t attack hospitals. In the cyber realm, hackers have no such scruples. “We’re attacked about every 7 seconds, 24 hours a day,” says John Halamka, CIO of the Boston hospital Beth Israel Deaconess. And the strikes come from everywhere: “It’s hacktivists, organized crime, cyberterrorists, MIT students,” he says.
Halamka was speaking on a panel about medical hacking at SXSW Interactive along with Kevin Fu, a University of Michigan engineering professor who studies medical device security. Together they told horror stories of major hospital hacks from recent years. Here we bring you the top five, which represent five different types of intrusion:
