The Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program has reportedly been compromised, with those responsible deleting records and now wanting $10 million before the records are restored, Wikileaks.org discovered.
"I have your [expletive] In *my* possession, right now, are 8,257,378 patient records and a total of 35,548,087 prescriptions," the hacker said in a ransom note. "Also, I made an encrypted backup and deleted the original. Unfortunately for Virginia, their backups seem to have gone missing, too. Uhoh :(For $10 million, I will gladly send along the password."
The Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program website is used to help pharmacists track prescription drug abuse, and has the records of 8 million state residents available through the network.
http://www.dailytech.com/Hackers+Breach+Virgina+Health+Database+Demand+Ransom/article15053.htm
Remember this. Big brother wants to create all these huge databases containing personal, private information about you....but they're too friggin incompetent to keep it secure. It's not that I don't trust the government...it's that I know it's full of morons.
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