Medical Identity Theft
It can be cheaper than paying insurance premiums, says Jim Landers:
An estimate
d 313,000 Americans will have their medical identities stolen this year, according to a recent study by the Michigan-based Ponemon Institute, bringing the total number in the last few years to 1.84 million.
Those numbers can be doubled overnight if hackers break into the quickly growing medical databases around the country. U.S. hospitals and medical centers have been hit by 56 hacking attacks in the last four years. A hacker traced to Romania lifted identities and other information from 780,000 patients in Utah’s Medicaid files in 2012.
There is no privacy anymore..
http://www.ncpathinktank.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=23012
^ Explains that we have more to worry about than just criminals stealing our identity
Yes. That is absolutely correct.
This is just something that we will have to deal with for the rest of our lives. The electronic era is here. Obviously the market is begging for a “hacker” proof system.
Now someone just needs to find a group of computer programmers who can program code so difficult that no one can hack their way in. – Simple enough…
Definitely a different country than when we were founded.
That’s for sure
“A federal judge in Florida became a witness for the prosecution after his medical identity was stolen this way and used to file insurance claims for two prosthetic legs. The judge testified that he had not made the claims because he had both of his legs.”
I have no further questions, your Honor.
The amount of privacy we have is going down by the day. Sad thing is, we willingly submit this information to sites such as facebook.
And public blogs.
We are, Anonymous.
These opinions posted on here put you at much less risk than say your medical records being stolen.
At least I would hope so.
You would be surprised. Even Microsoft and Facebook were severely affected by the NSA.