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The black market for stolen healthcare data

By NPR  
   February 16, 2015

President Obama is at Stanford University today, hosting a cybersecurity summit. He and about a thousand guests are trying to figure out how to protect consumers online from hacks and data breaches. Meanwhile, in the cyber underworld, criminals are trying to figure out how to turn every piece of our digital life into cash. The newest frontier: health records. I grab a chair and sit down with Greg Virgin, CEO of the security firm RedJack. "There are a lot of sites that have this information, and it's tough to tell the health records from the financial records," he says.

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