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Hacking of healthcare records skyrockets

By WRCB-TV / NBC News  
   February 16, 2016

For John Kuhn, a simple X-ray after a snowboarding accident turned into an accounting nightmare when the hospital billed him $20,000 for a surgery he never had. "So I had to go down in front of the billing department no less and pull up my shirt and show them that I did not have any major scarring on my stomach at all," Kuhn said. It turns out the hospital's hard drive had been stolen along with Kuhn's medical records. He's not alone, experts say health care-record hacking is skyrocketing — up 11,000 percent last year alone.

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