The demonstration is striking.
At the end of the line, a hacker lists us, screaming with laughter, the names and personal information of doctors from a large French hospital that he was able to recover thanks to a security breach.
Still on the phone, another man, a specialist in cybercrime, in a few seconds unearths the pseudonyms and passwords of more than 300 healthcare professionals across the country.
On the dark web, the hidden and often dark side of the internet, it takes little time for these insiders to browse through huge medical databases containing the social security numbers, addresses and medical histories of patients and healthcare professionals. .
Cyber attacks on healthcare establishments have increased since the beginning of 2020, with in particular a leak of 500,000 medical files in February 2021, and not a week goes by today without one of these establishments. is targeted by an attack.
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If these health data
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