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CN: Hospital Hackers Steal Thousands of Newborn Baby Videos

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Dissent

Fan Yiying reports:

Hackers have got their hands on nearly 6,000 private videos of newborn babies and uploaded them to a video-sharing website, according to a Tuesday report by online news outlet Phoenix New Media.

The videos were recorded by the Anhui Women and Children Health Hospital in Hefei, the eastern provincial capital, and were part of a project intended for parents to check in on their hospitalized children.

The hospital posted a message to its WeChat public account on Monday in which they apologized to parents and said they had reported the incident to the police. T

Read more on Sixth Tone.

It really is a puzzler as to why this hack was done – to teach the hospital a lesson about security? For commercial purposes? Just to test skills?

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