The Washington Post reports online today on a major heist of electronic medical information that happened last week and has been kept remarkably quiet.
Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted records on more than 8 million patients and replaced the site's homepage with a ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of the records, according to a posting on Wikileaks.org, an online clearinghouse for leaked documents.
The state discovered the intrusion April 30. Read the full Post story here.