When a hacker broke into patient files at the University of Washington Hospital in May 2000, the intrusion was not the first time electronic medical records (EMR) had fallen into the wrong hands. Here are other examples from 1997 through 2000 that got noticed. Since it is well-established by security research firms that most breaches go unreported, hospital and network administrators can safely assume these few examples hardly represent the true scope of the problem:
SOURCES: HEALTH PRIVACY PROJECT, GEORGE UNIVERSITY; BASELINE INTERVIEW