Study: Future IT Workers Would Sell Patient Data

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Nearly 60% of tech students indicated they would violate HIPAA if offered financial incentives; a link was found between interest in white hat hacking and illegal breaches.

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Original Source Material

Nearly 60% of Tech Students Said They'd Violate HIPAA If the Price Was Right Budding IT insiders can be corrupted into giving up protected health information of a very famous patient, say State University of New York at Buffalo researchers who also found a correlation between an interest in white hat hacking and illegal breaches.