As Robert Lord of Protenus explains in the May issue of Compliance Today, pediatric patient data continues to remain not only vulnerable to criminals, but also quite valuable to them, in part
because the medical records of these young patients provide criminals a blank slate upon which they can build a false identity. This—combined with the fact that medical identity theft of pediatric patients is incredibly hard to detect—means that criminals have a much longer time period with which to profit from the stolen information, costing the victim hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars.
Certainly, listings offering medical records on dark web marketplaces are concerning, as I noted previously when I found detailed mental health records up for sale. And although medical records are generally not selling for as much as many reports have claimed, here’s a listing by a vendor calling himself “Skyscraper” that had me both curious and concerned:
[Pediatrician Fullz] US fullz from *KIDS/ UNDER 18 * – SSN/DOB * SUMMER SALE
$3.00 for “fullz” on a child, although records with health insurance account information would likely sell for more than these basic “fullz.”
In a private chat, Skyscraper informed this site that the records […]
