| Staggering to think that the medical information of over 8 million people could or has been comprimised, especially in today's IT security.
This is just as if someone had stolen a laptop with nearly 20 million veterans personal data (yup, that happened).
All the tech security in the world CAN NOT keep someone out, especially if that someone works there in that very department.
Here's an true to life example - a women working in the billing department of a major 1200 bed hospital has access to personal records and data of every person who is admitted; and dies!
She fraudulently opened up new credit card accounts in the names of 8 deceased patients. By the time she is caught she runs up over $300K in goods, services, and merchandise in the deceased names in a span of about 2 years.
Your identity, personal information, credit worthiness is never completely 100% protected and never will be. As long as someone has access to such data then the data is never 100% secure.
So it really does not matter if it is law enforcement, government, healthcare, credit card company - if someone has intent, it is not safe.
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Conservative With A Conscience |