Comment Re:Not exactly a hack (Score 5, Informative) 78
This is just plain irresponsible behaviour by PillPack, nothing to do with hacking.
No, this is just plain irresponsible behavior by those who share infomation to PillPack and others.
Recently, I noticed that when I picked up a prescription for a (for me new) medication that's mostly used for one purpose, I suddenly got dozens of spam e-mails wanting to "help" me with a particular diagnosis I don't have. And that's the few that went through the double layer spam filter. It was way too pervasive to be a coincidence.
It's clear that the US prescription system leaks like a sieve, and that even spammers have access to people's prescription history.
Can we go back to paper prescriptions that don't enter a database, please?