Discarded medical devices found to have troves of information on healthcare facilities

Infusion pumps being sold on secondary markets like eBay were found to still carry troves of sensitive information about the hospitals that once owned them, researchers have found. Rapid7 principal security researcher Deral Heiland and several others examined 13 infusion pump device brands, like Alaris, Baxter and Hospira, finding access credentials and authentication data for

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