If you think Target and Neiman Marcus have done a lousy job of protecting your personal information, you may want to have a serious talk with your healthcare provider. The impact of attacks on major retailers could be tiny compared with what’s likely to happen with even more sensitive data: our electronic medical records. That’s because healthcare organizations are doing an even worse job of protecting it than the big stores are, according to a report to be released tomorrow by cyber-security firm Norse Corp. and the SANS Institute, a security research and educational organization. According to the report, millions of healthcare organizations have likely had their networks exploited by cyber-criminals or infected with malicious software that can be used to steal patients’ personal health information.

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