Study: Future IT Workers Would Sell Patient Data

Nearly 60% of Tech Students Said They'd Violate HIPAA If the Price Was Right Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • January 26, 2026

Budding IT insiders can be corrupted into giving up protected health information, say university researchers who also found a correlation between an interest in white hat hacking and a propensity for conducting illegal breaches.

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A survey of 523 information systems management and data analytics students by the State University of New York at Buffalo found that nearly 60% of respondents said they would leak information about a very famous patient in exchange for amounts ranging from less than $10,000 to more than $10 million, depending ...