Cyber Thieves Going After Americans' Healthcare Data

In a SANS newsbyte of last week, US Department of Homeland Security analyst Mark Walker reportedly told attendees at a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) workshop that early last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website became infected with malware and then a computer with information about a military health insurance program was broken into last spring. The foreign hackers are primarily from China and Russia.

"They've been focused on the Department of Defense - the military - but now are spreading out into the health care private sector," Walker said.

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