It’s a sign of the new digital age. Hackers claim to have stolen 8.3 million patient records, that track patient abuse of prescription drugs, from a Virginia state government site, and are holding them to ransom – for a figure of $10 million.
In a note posted on Wikileaks, the hackers said they had the records:
"In *my* possession, right now, are 8,257,378 patient records and a total of 35,548,087 prescriptions. Also, I made an encrypted backup and deleted the original. Unfortunately for Virginia, their backups seem to have gone missing, too."
