Heart-hacking possible - but why would you?
It would take a serious enemy to hack into a person's pacemaker, a New Zealand user says.
Fraser Baird, of Seadown, South Canterbury, who is fitted with a combined pacemaker and defibrillator, said although he believed it was possible to hack into the device, it was not something that worried him.
Security flaws have been revealed in pacemakers and defibrillators implanted in people with heart problems, according to IT security experts and a recent US government report. The experts say many of the devices are not properly secured and are therefore susceptible to being hacked by someone with malicious intent.