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When it comes to health, prevention is the best cure. Now it’s becoming apparent it is time to extend this philosohphy to medical data as well. While personally identifiable information — full names, social security numbers, home addresses, dates of birth, credit card numbers — can be exploited by criminals to commit identity fraud, the theft of medical information can have equally serious impact on victims. Thanks to a new report published by Carbon Black, we now know exactly how hackers use stolen healthcare data to their benefit. “Valuable data from the healthcare industry exceeds protected health information (PHI) and the…

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