The personal data of all licensed doctors in Puerto Rico have been stolen from cyber criminals.
Maybe you can tell us, keep the news quiet... And yet, such information they are worth quite a bit of money. Imagine a file with the personal information of all her doctors Greeces. Advertisers, pharmacies, NHS fraudsters and a bunch of others would give a lot to have it.
As for the incident in Puerto Rico, according to Associated Press , his chairman Puertorican College of Physicians & Surgeons and surgeons), Mr. Eduardo Ibarra revealed that the FBI and the Puerto Rican Department of Justice have been called in to investigate.
Mr. Ibarra reports that doctors have been harassed by emails since the agency's systems were breached.
It is unclear what kind of information has been compromised, but officers revealed that the attackers may have misused identities and information so that they are able to submit fake prescriptions.
We do not know how many doctors are affected, but it is DataBreaches.net has found one old article in which it is revealed that there are around 10.000 doctors in Puerto Rico.