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A hospital heart rate monitor

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U.S. hospitals have to abide by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Here's a violation: One hospital put its heart rate monitors online for the whole world to see.

Although this was a read-only tool -- you couldn't defibrillate a patient over the Internet -- it's still a major, major breach of the privacy law.

Tentler said that another security researcher reported this hospital to DHS' Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team last year.

By David Goldman   @DavidGoldmanCNN - Last updated May 02 2013 09:52 AM ET
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