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Healthcare: An Easy Target in Cyber Warfare
More and more doctors and hospitals are digitizing medical records — making massive amounts of personal data more vulnerable to hackers. The latest target: Anthem insurance, with 80 million customer records. Are companies getting the protection they need from the US government?
By Warren Olney • • 52m ListenMore and more doctors and hospitals are digitizing medical records — making massive amounts of personal data more vulnerable to hackers. The latest target: Anthem insurance, with 80 million customer records. Are companies getting the protection they need from the US government?
Also, President Obama readies a war authorization, and a wife and mother who can’t wait to do her job: taking photographs at the risk of her life.
Photo: Don Waldron
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