[ISN] Scandinavian gamers hack NH medical center to play Call of Duty; compromise records of 230,000

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:03:36 -0600 (CST)
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By CLYNTON NAMUO
New Hampshire Union Leader Correspondent 
Jan. 13 2011

ROCHESTER -- Some Scandinavian nerds went above and beyond to play their 
favorite video game last year when they hacked a server for Seacoast 
Radiology to get more bandwidth, a move that gave them access to the 
personal information of more than 230,000 patients.

The gamers preyed on the server to play "Call of Duty: Black Ops," a 
popular, first-person military-style game that can be played online, 
said Lisa MacKenzie, a spokesman for ID Experts, an outside security 
firm brought in to deal with the data breach.

"Based on the investigation, there's no belief that any personal 
information was compromised in any way," MacKenzie said. "They were not 
hacking in to get any medical billing codes or any personal information 
or anything like that."

The radiology practice discovered the hack on Nov. 12 after IT officials 
noticed bandwidth was being leeched and immediately shut off access to 
the server.

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