Got a letter from my doctor: All my data has been hacked, and they are sorry that it happened.

I don't have anything unusual that I want to hide, but I feel uncomfortable knowing that random strangers know about whatever my doctor said about my private parts.

Hackers have targeted hospitals because they can bring them to their knees and make it impossible to treat patients by denying access to patient records, e.g., blood type, prescribed medicines, etc., unless they hospital pays the hackers millions of dollars, some fraction of which they should have paid for competent IT people in the first place to avoid the problem.

I assumed my local GP was small potatoes in comparison, but apparently not.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/29/nx-s1-5161333/hackers-are-putting-lives-at-risk-at-hundreds-of-hospitals-across-the-country

UnitedHealthcare, whose CEO died due to vigilante justice, also had medical records for a 100 million customers hacked.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/unitedhealth-change-healthcare-hacked-millions-health-records-ransomware/

A lone gunman can't do as much damage as a ring of hackers that connive to make it impossible for hospitals to function .