Tom Cotton warns of cyber threat from Chinese medical devices

Cotton said in the letter, also sent to the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency, that “more must be done to protect Americans from compromised medical devices.” “American patients’ exposure to compromised Chinese-made medical devices poses a risk to both national security and public health,” Cotton wrote. The letter comes following the FDA’s discovery last year that the device Contec CMS8000, a popular medical monitor that tracks patients’ vital signs, would automatically extract patients’ personally identifiable health information when connected to the internet. Cotton said the data extraction from the device could leave patients open to “identity theft, insurance fraud, extortion…