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Storm⚡️Watch | Healthcare Data at Risk & Chinese Hackers Exploit 30-Year-Old Law

Summary: A Censys study cited in this episode found more than 3,800 DICOM servers publicly exposed on the internet, putting data from 59 million patients at risk. The episode also covers Chinese hackers compromising the wiretap systems of major U.S. telecom and internet providers, a breach tied to the 30-year-old Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA).

What's compelling: More than 3,800 exposed medical image servers and 59 million patient records is the kind of exposure that does not stay contained to one organization, and the CALEA wiretap breach shows that a lawful-access mandate built three decades ago is now itself an attack surface.

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