The Heartbleed Bug which caused widespread panic earlier this year has been blamed for the huge cyber-security breach at a US hospital group which saw 4.5 million patient records stolen. According to David Kennedy, chief executive of TrustedSec, the criminals - believed to be from China - stole the records from Community Health Systems by exploiting the Heartbleed bug in equipment made by Juniper Networks. The hospital group has declined to comment on the nature of the attack method used in the breach, as has Juniper Networks. Earlier this week Community Health Systems confirmed its network had been breached and that hackers had stolen data on 4.5 million patients from the 206 hospitals the group operators across 29 states in the United States.
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