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Hacked medical devices are undoubtedly the greatest security threat to our health these days. A patient’s medical information can be worth 10 times as much as a credit card number to an eager hacker, according to Reuters. Stolen patient data can provide cybercriminals with all of the information they need to access a person’s information, including names, birth dates, billing information, and policy numbers, putting lives and data at risk. Hacked MRI scanners, in particular, can provide cybercriminals with remote administrative access to critical information so that they can harness information as specific as the floor number in which equipment or a patient is located.

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